Here you can get your taste of foreign equities without a lot of currency risk.

FORBES: Riding the Dollar

As Japan got a taste for foreign holidays, they set up or bought travel agents, airlines and hotel chains.

ECONOMIST: Japanese retailing

One strategy Towson describes is what many of us in the West have done de facto to taste the foreign fruit: buy multinationals with exposure to our target markets.

FORBES: Three Ways To Invest In Emerging Markets Beyond BRIC

Galina was spoiled by a father who himself had a taste for extravagance (he had a huge collection of foreign cars).

ECONOMIST: Galina Brezhneva