Along with Ben Shewry at Attica and Dan Hunter at Brae, Jock Zonfrillo of Orana in Adelaide is a leader of a new breed of chefs who have steered away from the country's Med and Thai obsessions to champion indigenous ingredients and flavours.
He also enjoys sharing "little personal obsessions" with other Instagrammers such as #calendaribalconitis (balconies), #persianisme (shutters) or #labarcelonalletja (ugly Barcelona).
Though communal living has its downsides – Linda Grant writes about the pretentious political dogma and macrobiotic obsessions of a hippy commune in her novel We Had It So Good, while what went on in RD Laing's living experiments was altogether more disturbing – I'm convinced that witnessing how resources, material and intellectual, could be pooled at such a young age has shaped me as an adult.
This story by his contemporary Algernon Blackwood touches upon his two obsessions: the supernatural and what he saw as the need for man to reconnect with nature in the face of modernity.
Up to now, its obsessions have been grouped around the issues of internet freedom, state surveillance and the monopolisation of intellectual property and communications.
If that is the case, the government's infatuation with targets may turn out to be as unhealthy as most obsessions.
The nearly man In search of a theme Primary colour Good intentions, bad technology A new sort of wind power Enter the general Reprints Related items Lexington: Enter the generalJan 22nd 2004 The Democratic primaries: A real Iowa surpriseJan 22nd 2004In the event, Mr Bush eschewed the vision thing and gave a speech that was almost Clintonian in its small-bore obsessions.
With its presumptuous humour, its mathematical obsessions, its easy, arrogant belief that it is the natural home for geniuses, the billboard spoke of a company that thinks it has taken its rightful place as the leader of the technology industry, a position occupied for the past 15 years by Microsoft.In tone, the billboard was "googley", as the firm's employees like to say.
"THE China Study" is the world's biggest-selling book about all things Chinese because it touches on two American obsessions.
The television screens are clear for normal broadcasts again and strange national obsessions with medals come to an end.Before that end, though, comes one final blast of Olympic craziness: the closing ceremony.
It is a series of rock lyrics that blur the distinction between poetry and song.In this section Waiting for God The workshop heroes A Suffolk lad Rock chick Obsessions Reprints Related topics Amazon Arts, entertainment and media Media PoetryIn many ways these works are not average rock lyrics.
