But Scardino has downplayed the threat, contrasting the FT's "international" profile with the "essentially American" Wall Street Journal.
"China's currency, unfortunately, is in a position of finding itself involved in the finger-wagging sessions that accompany this essentially American saga," it said, as quoted by Reuters.
Mo Ousti, who cooked most recently at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, adds a restrained internationalism to an essentially American menu.
('So a few fat Jews had their behinds bumped and now you are arguing that Germany is unfit to live in.') Was he essentially American, or German American with a soft spot for the Kaiser?
In his urgency to justify himself and his country by producing a national epic, one might say, Crane misplaced the very quality of his work that makes it essentially American — namely, his spontaneous trust that his perceptions and experiences are as significant and authentic as anything myth or history can provide.
The purpose of the school is the development of a national ballet, corresponding to the famous Russian Ballet, but essentially American in character, enlisting the talents of American artists, dealing with typically American themes, creating an American tradition".
Like hot dogs, pizza and more particularly, chop suey, they are essentially American concoctions.
"Diana's music feels essentially American without getting into that whole Americana thing," Ms. Patchett added.
Both the quintessentially French Cartier-Bresson and the essentially American Evans influenced Ms. Levitt.
