It's difficult to imagine that once entrepreneurs like Stefan were seen as radicals, bringing foreign flavours to sometimes-hostile tastebuds.
Shaoxing wine and Chinkiang vinegar both have foreign, mysterious flavours.
Not only are the ingredients (words) different, but the grammar of the dishes is foreign, too – the classic flavours of sweet, savoury (or umami), fatty, bitterness, salty and sour are combined in different ways.
Easy enough to understand, but lacking in the flavour that most foreign audiences would understand as authentically Jamaican.
Raising capital is not hard; the Mexican bolsa is flavour of the month with foreign investors.
Westgate is a favourite of United Nations staff, foreign diplomats, wealthy Kenyans and tourists, who add a cosmopolitan flavour to the city of 4m people.
There was a surreal flavour, meanwhile, to the requests by France and Germany for a foreign ministers' meeting in New York and to their efforts to spotlight Mr Blix's report on the tasks still before Iraq.
The terrorists' acronym, SOB, offers a flavour of Shriver's tone in this tale of jaded foreign correspondents and ranting ideologues.
Though we were among 40,000 foreign visitors (half of whom are American), our presence didn't dilute the Trinidadian flavour much.
Most fats, even after refining, have characteristic flavours and odours, and vegetable fats especially have a relatively strong taste that is foreign to that of butter.
But in the Olympic park, British audiences cheer on all flavours of athletes and not once have I encountered a single snigger about comically named foreign competitors such as Rich Fellers or Destinee Hooker.
