DG Various World 2006 (Korova) £14.99 Now an institution, the annual 'World' compilation from broadcaster and writer Charlie Gillett is both a sampler of outstanding albums and an uncoverer of obscure delights.
The new shop was snazzy, for sure, but it managed to keep the original's cheese-geek optimism alive, offering tastes of obscure delights and inspiring party platters anew, while bulking up with hundreds of fancy, Murray's-approved pantry products and in-store creations such as house-made pastas and charred broccoli salad.
But a whole lot of how New Yorkers pride themselves on knowing which nooks and crannies of Chinatown or Alphabet City or Flushing have the cheapest, most obscure culinary delights.
While the punch revival has been spearheaded by the same sort of obsessive people who delight in obscure bitters and the perfect muddling stick, in many ways it is actually the antithesis of a reverent cocktail culture.
He delights in pulling obscure show tunes out of his giant-size hat, and he knows the words to every song he plays.
Does_ _it invite the help of the obscure and neglected, and propose to delight not only your friends, but the helpless and the sad; those hurt in heart and sore in soul; those who know pleasure only by report?
Some of the female jury rose to the challenge of this bravura grandstand of intellectualism, which eschews plot and character to revel in the sheer delight of languages and obscure learning (Greek, Eskimo and Japanese all put in appearances).
He delighted in hearing of obscure rituals that had survived into the modern age, like the "fire-walking" of the Anastenaria, a mysterious Greek Orthodox sect.
The book is good fun, as all such lists are, for the delight at finding a slightly obscure favourite – Grow is in there!
The more obscure the player, the more likely you'll delight everyone with your whimsy.
