High staff turnover can mean that valued patrons are sometimes overlooked by chefs and owners whose time is being increasingly stretched by the commitments of writing cookbooks, appearing on cooking shows and opening new branches.
She was a generous Patron of the Garden and was a valued member of the Garden's Horticulture Committee.
The book in its current form, while large, will be a valued addition to any library and will bring the topic alive for patrons of many different abilities and backgrounds.
Arthur Avenue does value patrons with familiar faces, though.
By contrast, Bernini, the great Baroque sculptor and architect of the 17th century — and the subject of another special exhibition in Rome at the moment — regarded his paintings as almost a hobby, not apparently directly related to his sculpture and little noted or valued by his patrons and contemporaries.
Certainly people talked about art, patrons valued it, connoisseurs appraised it.
True, the oil price is falling sharply, but shares in oil companies lagged well behind the crude prices when it was soaring to $147 a barrel.James Montier of Dresdner Kleinwort uses a value screen developed by Ben Graham, the patron saint of value investing and the mentor of Warren Buffett.
He was generous to his readers and his city, including becoming a patron of the Royal school, a role which he valued highly.
When Clare began to be taken up by editors and patrons, he was valued first and foremost as a freak: the title page of his first book described him as "A Northamptonshire Peasant".
But he was a curator, a critic and a patron.
Their output was valued, but in a social order dominated by church, royal court and wealthy patrons, their standing was not high.
