[blam]

"Add the hot pepper and tobacco."

Isn't it amazing that all the worlds hot peppers originated in the Caribbean...Thai and Indian food without hot peppers?

The tomato is also a new world food also...and Marco Polo brought noodles back from China...what did the Italians eat before that?

[RightWhale]

How about eggplant? Thinking that is related to tomato and hot peppers or peppers. Not that anybody actually likes eggplant.

[Alas Babylon!]

From the Americas:
Corn, beans, hot peppers, sweet peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, squash, pumpkins, tobacco, long thread cotton, and avacados.

[Clock King]

I thought noodles were co-invented by the Chinese and Italians, i.e. created separately, but basically the same thing?

[Cobra Scott]

Marco Polo did not introduce noodles to Europe.

Ever read Cicero? Noodles were a mediterranian dish even then.

[ASA Vet]

Thai and Indian food without hot peppers

There are many Thai dishes that are not spicy.

Before the chili's became known to the Thai
they used a varity of pepper corns which are spicy too.
They are still used.