In addition to bolstering wholesale operations in the other cities around the continent where Vlisco already is sold, the company has identified what it calls geographic "taste clusters," city, country or regional markets that share preferences, and is planning to develop products for them.
Some of the growth has come from the domestic migration of young professionals with a taste for city life.
He was a farmer who hadn't yet tried the drug; Sayyid wanted to give him a taste of city life.
Now Mr. Miller and the City University of New York have created a free program that gives public high school students a taste of city government.
Hickenlooper got his first taste of city politics in 2000, when he joined a campaign to oppose the naming rights for a new football stadium that was being built downtown.
This does not discourage much of the Formula One personnel and most of the foreign spectators from staying in Shanghai, where they can taste the city's vibrant cultural life and exceptional food and tourism possibilities.
With 20 Champions League titles between Real, Barcelona and Milan – PSG and Atletico are yet to taste success – City would certainly be up against it ahead of their first ever appearance in the last 16.
But it was also by design, to give the country folk an exciting taste of city life as they gathered with their stock and traded tips on the latest farming trends -- and to give city folk, many of them only a generation or two off the farm themselves, a whiff of the old life.
Twenty-two, fresh-faced and extraordinarily well-groomed having just been made a second lieutenant, I rushed down sidewalks crowded with dozens, no, hundreds of brand-spanking-new New Yorkers just like me — newly hatched college graduates occupying grubby walk-ups or dusty sublets, eager to taste the city's pleasures, ready for anything.
For my taste, the city's residents are too calorie-conscious; I was appalled to learn that a hot new barbecue restaurant had to stop giving its patrons a choice between "fatty" and "lean" versions of its excellent brisket because almost no one ordered the fatty.
