Homegrown favourites range from Eccles cake ice cream to "a really good fish pie" (no salmon).
"The other half have personal favourites ranging from Haydn to Bartók".
For Chabon, a self-confessed music junkie with favourites ranging from Joni Mitchell and Elvis Costello to Mos Def and Rakim, Ronson's request was a "bolt from the blue.
Last week Mary Sebag-Montefiore listed her Top 10 classics to read before you're ten, and it was a fantastic line-up of all-time favourites, ranging from Peter Rabbit to Alice in Wonderland.
The island has 80 miles of pristine shoreline, and every local has their favourite beach, ranging from calm Jetties Beach on the northern tip to wild sunsets at Madaket and throbbing surf at Nobadeer in the south (nicknamed "Brobadeer" for its party scene in summer).
We chose 36 finalists, from Tallinn to Calgary to Bhubaneswar, whose favourite city ideas range from baths floating in the river, to a green zone around the city, to a network of connected cultural rooftops.
He's already a favourite with a range of Radio 2 DJs and has played a series of sold out London shows over the last 18 months, culminating in a full UK tour this June.
Free Eagle, the long-range favourite for next year's Derby after winning a maiden at Leopardstown in mid-August, is declared to run in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Trial Stakes on the Leopardstown card.
The launch of a vote this afternoon for 6 Music followers to choose their favourite band T-shirts – ranging from The Rolling Stones lips and tongue by Jon Pasche to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon prism by Storm Thorgerson – plays into the kind of devotion the station is aimed at.
Li acknowledged that the economy had "come under quite a number of difficulties and downward pressure" while stressing it remained in a "proper range", a favourite phrase.
