Incredible as it may
sound, Potatoes were uncommon in Madras until 1882!
Originally
introduced to India by the Portuguese, the potato took hundreds of years to
spread across India.
Narendra Modi's
hygiene drive in India has an interesting historical precedent. Mid nineteenth
century Naples was notoriously filthy, causing Mark Twain to quip: "See
Naples and die".
Remind anyone of
India today?
As it turns out King
Umberto and his queen Margherita came to the rescue and inititated a cleanup in
the 1880s. The cleanup was successful and paved the way for Neapolitan pizza to
spread to the whole world.
