A meat that nearly all Britons consider revolting, for example, is cherished as a protein-rich delight by a small but loyal minority in places like Belgium, the home of the European Union's Brussels bureaucracy and Europe's biggest per capita consumer of horse meat.
A lot of these stories hinge on seductive lies and charismatic liars, and Hemon's writing, even as it supplies some of the richest delights in contemporary prose, as well as some of the best jokes, seems haunted by a wish to deliver an impossibly authentic witness to unspeakable tragedy.
But it may nonetheless be a rich source of delight to savor the departure of the toxic uninvited guest who has spent the last year so stubbornly resident in our brains.
But appearances are deceptive, and visitors to the islands will discover a rich seam of delights.
The rich should be delighted to be contributing to a fairer world, they shall have treasure in heaven.
It is best digested if it is a great escape (what good book isn't?), rich in sensory delights, with a powerful sense of the changing seasons.
A huge, immediate success, it was described in The New York Times Book Review as "an exciting and enjoyable romp of a book, rich in literary delights".
But it's also worth noting what we've lost: the sense of scale, the challenge of travel, the wonderful appreciation of gentle change that overland journeys involve, the slow shifts that reveal the planet and its people's rich and varied delights.
It's rare that music-making so successfully blends sheer sonic delight with rich intellectual substance.
And throughout the evening there ran, to my delight, a rich bawdy vein of bisexual banter.
