Le gout de terroir, A MUSTY CHEESE CAVE, A well-used horse blanket, funk: you know it when you taste it, but it's not so easy to put it into words. In the context of music, funk is an amalgam of existing musical styles (jazz, blues, rock, soul), characterized by heavy bass lines and offbeat rhythms. Apply that formula to funky food, and you come close to a definition: the flavor and aroma of funk arise from a combination of familiar factors, bound together with an offbeat and ...