When it's simply applying clever tweaks to enduring favorites - Serrano applesauce accompanies a hefty pork chop - it excels.
An enduring favorite among the symphonies is Christoph von Dohnanyi's set with the Cleveland Orchestra on Decca.
Reliably fresh seafood and pleasing simple preparations makes this inviting neighborhood fish house an enduring favorite among local residents.
His daily "My Town Indy" radio essays, which ran for thirty years, were among the station's most enduring favorites.
A performance of Aaron Copland's "Old American Songs," with the composer conducting, has also remained an enduring favorite.
According to Charles Shaw, "The rugged simplicity of the Century family of types has made it an enduring favorite of American typographers for almost one hundred years.
One of my enduring favorites is a tawny brown pair, slashed, maimed in the heel, with that down-in-the-mouth look of entreaty.
The C-Major, my enduring favorite of the five, is what the performer makes of it: either a last long breath of the Classical age or a step into Romanticism.
Some of the charts on this album have become enduring favorites of the Lab Bands at the University of North Texas.
Her life's work lives on not only in print but in movies, television shows and cartoons that have become enduring favorites even to fans who have never read a word she wrote.