Question

In what ways did food items offer scope for long distance cultural exchange

Answer 1

Foods offers many examples for " Long distance cultural exchange".
For example :
1)Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands they travelled.
2)It is believed that noodles traveled west from China to become spaghetti.3.)Arabs traders took pasta to 5th century Sicily, an island now in Italy.

4)Now  Chinese  or  Indian  meal  is  not  confined  to  their  respective  hamlets  anymore. Chinese food, we find in India for which indians are mad. if we go to China, we can find indian cushion which offer Indian food.
5) By migration of people from different culture,  food culture also migrates to that particular region.

Answer 2

Answer:

food help in long distance cultural exchange

it is believed that noodles travelled West from China to become Spaghetti and Arab traders took pasta to Italy .

many of our common foods such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts,maize,tomatoes and so on came from our countries.