A Love for Exotic Flavours

For some of us, gastronomic journeys of discovery cannot be exotic enough, while others shy away from any taste adventure. These personal preferences, as it turns out, allow direct conclusions to be drawn about our personality. Let’s take a look back: 40 years ago, foods and dishes from beyond our immediate home region or country would have passed for exotic, enticing us with the allure of the unknown. Today we need pufferfish, deep-fried insects or some other off-piste snack to present unknown flavours, so global has our food supply become. This proves that the flavours themselves are secondary. In our context, it is the fact that it was and always will be about the unusual, the different, the novel which attracts many food lovers – and from a psychological point of view this is indeed a compliment for them.