- Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands they travelled. Even ‘ready’ food stuff in distant part of the world might share common origins.
- It is believed that noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti or perhaps, Arab traders took pasta to Sicily, an island of Italy.
- Similar foods were also known in India and lapan, so the truth about their origins may never be known, but they too travelled from one country to another.
- This is how long distance cultural contacts in the pre-modern era were possible with the travelling of various food items