Food travels : Spaghetti and Potato essay explain
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Food offers a long distance cultural exchange.
Noodles travelled from west to China & became spaghetti
Noodles travelled from west to China & became spaghettiArab traders took pasta to 5th century Sicily
Foods like potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chilies, sweet potatoes were not known to our ancestors five centuries ago – introduced after Columbus accidently discovered Americas (many common food came from America)
Foods like potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chilies, sweet potatoes were not known to our ancestors five centuries ago – introduced after Columbus accidently discovered Americas (many common food came from America)Ireland’s poorest peasants, dependent on potatoes that with famine of mid-1840s many died of starvation (10 lakh people died)
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Food is another way to understand how a global world existed in pre-modern times since traders or travellers introduced new food to the place they visited. Five centuries ago, Indians were not aware of potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies and sweet potatoes.
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