Orbital View: Mondrian Snow
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021.
“It’s like a fractured, monochrome Mondrian artwork,” says one commenter, invoking the work of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, best known for his paintings featuring clean lines, rectangles, and lots of white, like “Trafalgar Square”:
Nice to look at. But to eat? Caitlin Freeman has you covered: The San Francisco-based pastry chef’s modern art-inspired cookbook, published in 2013, includes a recipe for a ganache-covered cake that looks just like a Mondrian masterpiece.
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About the Author
Marina Koren is a former staff writer at The Atlantic.