I have nothing to offer in way of recipes but your query sort of reminded me of something that occurred 35 years ago. My wife and I were on our first trip as a married couple back to where she grew up - Thailand. Although I'd been in Asia before, I reveled in the new flavors and environment. We took a flight to northern Thailand and stayed with a friend of her parents and for dinner they told me they had a treat. They pulled out an item that they had searched far and wide for, something very expensive at that time and in that place - a jar or peanut butter just for me. Their thought was that I, as an American in their country, would really like a taste of home. I was polite, thanked, ate, etc., but I was really disappointed because what I had wanted was foods that were native to that region of Thailand. Is there a lesson from this parable . . . ;-)