You may be implored to sniff out the vanilla and dark honey notes of an Ecuadorian Le Loja, or taste bouquets of red berries in an Ethiopian Sidamo Ardi.

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Her parents, Lesia and Peter Matijcio, had steeped their daughter in the customs and language of their homeland, and as she recited (in Ukrainian) an ode to Ukraine's folkloric kalyna plant a slender-branched shrub with lustrous red berries by the poet Taras Shevchenko, the crowd roared, and the little girl took bow after bow.

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