At the bakery and cafe Friends and Family near Little Armenia, you can find all sorts of delicious pastries, usually with a little twist. There are the sonora wheat croissants, banana bread and ...
One day last year in Paris, I went to the Musée de Cluny, a temple to the tactile esoterica of medieval France. I remember seeing braids of wooden hair, a marble gown sculpted in almost calligraphic ...