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        The Creme Brulee Doughnut from the Doughnut Plant is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

        Sweet Art

        The Daily Pic: The crème brûlée "bismarck" from the Doughnut Plant is a great aesthetic creation.

        Blake Gopnik

        Updated Jul. 12, 2017 1:10AM ET / Published Feb. 05, 2013 5:36PM ET 

        (Photo by Michael E. Mason for Doughnut Plant)

        For a foodie, trumpeting the crème brûlée doughnut from the Doughnut Plant, in New York, is like saying that you rather like the Sistine Ceiling. But, on the assumption that not everyone who reads the Daily Pic is a food fanatic, I’m still willing to proclaim this sweet, with its crisp-caramel outside and crème-y filling, one of the great aesthetic creations of recent years. My only problem with that proclamation is that I’d never rave about fine art that was so mild-mannered in its innovation: I ought to demand a blood-flavored cruller with durian foam. Can I take refuge in the thought that the mash-up of French and American pastry idioms gives this donut some postmodern cred? Surely it thematizes globalization and post-colonial cultural collisions, with a nod to neoconcrete anthropophagy?

        For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.

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