flavor

To intensify the flavor, I stirred in some carrot purée alongside it.

The score follows suit, with Curtis Moore’s music and Amanda Green’s lyrics setting up the period flavor only to bust out in Broadway-style pop, rock and even hip-hop.

Lemon is its defining flavor — not tomato, not cheese, not even the pasta itself.

As the multigenerational strands connect, Diaz’s spry narrative voice remains a constant, a propulsive mix of English, Spanish and Spanglish, an urban bouillabaisse of flavor and purpose.

Cream cheese provides the base; vanilla adds warmth and aroma; salt sharpens the flavors; and sugar rounds out the tang.