Inside our latest issue
How pastries help tell the story of culture across the globe.
T Magazine
November 15, 2025
© Ulala Imai, courtesy of the artist, Karma and Nonaka-Hill. Photo: Kei Okano; Sharon Core; © Anna Weyant, courtesy of Gagosian. Photo: Owen Conway; photograph by Jack Davison. Styled by Raphael Hirsch

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A WORLD OF PASTRIES

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Charlotte Yonga

The Winter Travel Issue

For Some Nuns, Baking Is an Act of Devotion

In convents across Spain, the tradition of selling sweets is alive and well.

By Jason Horowitz

An egg tart surrounded by drinks presented on a table.

Anu Kumar

The Winter Travel Issue

With Their Egg Tarts, Hong Kong’s Cha Chaan Tengs Offer Nostalgic Joy

The much-loved treat has become synonymous with the city’s vanishing all-day diners.

By Martha Cheng

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Armin Tehrani

The Winter Travel Issue

What Makes Danish Baking So Special?

How a Viennese layering technique, combined with a New Nordic approach to ingredients, came to define the country’s pastries.

By Lauren Joseph

Kaab el ghazal presented on a round platter.

Enea Arienti

The Winter Travel Issue

A Crescent-Shaped Dessert That’s a Symbol of Hospitality

Kaab el ghazal, which are stuffed with almond paste, are one of Morocco’s most iconic pastries.

By Tara Stevens

An array of baked goods.

Photograph by Esther M. Choi. Set design by Martin Bourne

The Winter Travel Issue

The Frankenpastry Lives!

Surrounded by a wealth of global cuisines, New York bakers are dreaming up ever-wilder confectionary combinations.

By Tanya Bush

A glass display case with various conchas. On top, a cake and a stack of pastries.

Nuria Lagarde

The Winter Travel Issue

In Mexico, Nothing Says ‘Good Morning’ Like a Concha

Chefs are elevating what’s long been a basic street cart breakfast with novel flavors and updated ingredients.

By Michael Snyder

Two towers made from different types of baklava.

Photograph by Esther M. Choi. Set design by Martin Bourne

The Winter Travel Issue

The Infinite Varieties of Baklava

A favorite of 16th-century sultans, the syrup-soaked and oft-reinvented sweet is still beloved by Turkish diners today.

By Jenny Comita

Three plates with macarons, slices of bright green bánh bò nướng and a red sticky rice cake. Next to the plates, a shovel filled with flour.

Photograph by Esther M. Choi. Set design by Martin Bourne

The Winter Travel Issue

We’ve Entered a New Era of Vietnamese Baking

The country’s signature desserts meld Southeast Asian flavors with French colonial influences. Now the next generation of diasporic chefs is adding its imprint.

By Doris Hồ-Kane

An array of imitation fruits displayed on a counter and metal platters.

Photograph by Sophie Kirk. Set design by Julia Zagury

The Winter Travel Issue

The Apples Are Not What They Seem

A French tradition since at least the 14th century, trompe l’oeil sweets are especially well suited to our social media age.

By Lauren Joseph

Plus find recipes for home baking here.

ART & CULTURE

A black-and-white photograph of Greer Lankton reclining with her hands behind her head.

© 2025 The Peter Hujar Archive/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

HISTORIES & HAPPENINGS

What Ever Happened to Greer Lankton?

Nearly 30 years after her death, the artist’s freakish and fashionable doll sculptures are finally getting their due. But those who knew her best are still grappling with her legacy.

By Nick Haramis

B. Wurtz is seated on a chair in an office wearing a purple shirt and black jeans. Behind him, a task lamp and a wall covered with artworks.

Emiliano Granado

Life in Pictures

The Artist Whose Muse Is the Hardware Store

B. Wurtz uses humble, everyday materials — plastic bags, aluminum pans — and turns them into something beautiful. Here, his life in five artworks.

By Andrew Russeth

A black-and-white portrait of Tessa Thompson and Nina Chanel Abney.

Lelanie Foster

admiration society

Tessa Thompson and Nina Chanel Abney on the Uses of Delusion

The “Hedda” actress and the artist chat about balancing art with commerce and the politicization of a Black queer figure.

By Niela Orr

DESIGN & INTERIORS

A bed is surrounded by stacks of books, and a library built into the walls.

Annie Schlechter

Home and Work

A Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Books

Surrounded by his expansive library and exquisite objects, a collector whose aesthetic helped shape America’s idea of minimalism has built a maximalist nirvana.

By Alexa Brazilian and Annie Schlechter

A long wooden table in a room with frame moldings on the wall and a mirror above a wide marble fireplace.

Piet-Albert Goethals

On Architecture

A Parisian Apartment That Looks Scandinavian

When a couple found a new home in a classic Haussmannian building, they chose an architect who’d give it a pared-back feel.

By Laura May Todd and Piet-Albert Goethals

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Enea Arienti

Traditions

Flowers That Are Never Out of Season

How one decades-old Milan shop makes remarkably realistic blossoms out of copper.

By Isabel Wilkinson Schor and Enea Arienti

A room with yellow walls, a metal chair with an upholstered seat and a nude painting. Through the door frame, a staircase is visible.

William Jess Laird

by design

An Upstate Home Designed to House Artistic Obsessions

In renovating his Sullivan County, N.Y., retreat — once a dilapidated boardinghouse — a stylist’s goal was to reveal rather than remake.

By Jameson Montgomery and William Jess Laird

FOOD

A stack of flower-shaped cookies.

Courtesy of Lysée NYC

People, Places, Things

You Can Put Soy Sauce on Everything — Even Dessert

Plus: sparkly botanical brooches, a new look for an iconic Tokyo hotel and more from T Magazine’s cultural compendium.

FASHION

A model poses on a beach in a blue mask, a pleated red top and a white skirt.

Photograph by Jack Davison. Styled by Raphael Hirsch

Fashion to Wear on Your Boldest Adventures

Clothes with extreme proportions and surreal silhouettes can’t help but make a statement.

By Jack Davison and Raphael Hirsch

A man walks out of a changing room of a store wearing a gray coat, a green scarf and carrying a black satchel over his right arm. A man in a suit looks at him with his arms out and his palms facing up.

Photograph by Chris Verene. Styled by Patrick Welde

In Fashion

Is There Anything Better Than a Perfectly Tailored Outfit?

The unbridled joy of dressing up is back, with classic suiting serving as the foundation and whimsical accessories adding some fun.

By Chris Verene and Patrick Welde