Chapter : 1. The Making of a Global World
Food Travels : Spaghetti and Potato
Food Travels : Spaghetti and Potato :
(i) Food offers many examples of long distance cultural exchange. Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands they travelled. Noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti. Arab traders took pasta to fifth-century Sicly, an island now in Italy.
(ii) Some of India's favourite food items like potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies, sweet potatoes, etc., originally belonged to the Americas, which was accidentqly discovered by Christopher Columbus. These crops were commonly grown in North America, South America and the Caribbean islands.
(iii) The introduction of certain crops served as life savers. The Europe's poor were benefitted from the introduction of potatoes with good nutrients and health. They became so dependent on Potatoes that thousands in Ireland perished in 1840's during the Irish Potato Famine.
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