Musical instruments, genres, and styles borrowed from European culture have been adapted to native tastes and incorporated into traditional repertories.
But in due course, ceramics echoing more native tastes — for example studiedly irregular raku vessels — also became an integral part of the complex tea-drinking ritual.
Jordanians acknowledge that shawarma was originally imported, probably from Turkey, maybe from Greece, but it has clearly become a local food, having been adapted to native tastes and customs.
Furthermore, candidate bitter receptors may heterodimerize within native taste cells, adding to the complexity of identifying specific alleles (21).
Into this stepped first the Berni brothers, who determinedly eschewed every one of their native Italian tastes to give us affordable steaks along the lines of American chains, and complete with now-fading recipe-card commandments to be followed down to the last doily.
An autodidact, whose native intelligence, taste and curiosity gave him a freshness of approach and an originality that now seems to have been MBA'd, PHD'd and Rhodes-scholared out of existence.
In the centre of the garden is a shelter in which the produce of some of the plants is on display: Marula, a native fruit that tastes like a plum; the weird husks of devil's claw, used to ease the pain of arthritis; artemisia, the anti-malarial; the Kalahari cucumber, which the people here have foraged for but never before grown, and so on.
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Bruno himself is a greying, enigmatic figure, a man whose loyalties are to the Legion alone, but submitting to no very obvious further demands of patriotism or national duty, and who is on the verge of going native, with a taste for the narcotic languor of chewing the local khat leaves.
But you probably don't know that these "softly succulent" native American leaves taste like "mâche accented with spinach" and make the "prettiest nosegay" of a salad with enoki, endive and grapes, and that they can also stand up to a hot bacon-and-vinegar dressing, just like the French frisée.
Though she kept in touch with her native Florence, her taste matured at the itinerant royal court of France.
