Devotion to regional ingredients and traditions have always marked the best restaurants in Italy, no matter where they are.
In a space marked by soaring windows, exposed brick walls, tattersall upholstery and a beautiful old cider press, regional American food is now the focus of devotion.
Instead, in a country where devotion to sports is fueled by ferocious regional and political rivalries, there are instead individual teams representing Britain's fractious, proud and fiercely competitive constituent nations — namely England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
In Iran, Islamic philosophy is given priority; in Turkey, at least until recently, there was scarcely any mention of local or regional traditions in the university philosophy curriculum, but only a fervent devotion to a vision of philosophy principally concerned with analysis of the language and methodology of science.
Nor, despite all the Britishness on view in the form of ceramics, metalwork and a positively druidic devotion to hardwoods, was it simply a distillation of a regional design character.
The Times, long seen as one of the best regional papers in the country, has had an unusually big newsroom for its circulation, and a devotion to time-consuming investigative work.
In the not-so-distant past, that devotion to service, coupled with Mr. Henig's voluble, sometimes volatile personality, might have resulted in a nice regional following for a flourishing dealership.
Mr. Stern's devotion to garlic started in the early 1980's when Cornell University asked him to research viable minor commercial crops for regional farmers.
It means "total devotion".
This devotion is sincere.
