Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands they travelled. Even ‘ready’ foodstuff in distant parts of the world might share common origins. It is believed that noodles travelled west from China to become spaghetti. Arab travellers/traders took Pasta to fifth-century Sicily,an island in Italy. Similar foods were also known in India and Japan. This suggests the possibilities of long-distance cultural contact even in the pre-modern world. Many of our common foods such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomato, chillies had their origin in the Americas.