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and odd beauty

. . . [O]n the menu in the Café Imperial today is a $72 dish called Saturnin's Bowl, which consists of nothing but five dozen day-old jelly doughnuts -- doughnuts which the purchaser of Saturnin's Bowl is free to throw at his or her fellow café patrons.

Studio 360's Kurt Andersen muses about "beautiful oddness".