New York City restaurant Serendipity 3 makes the "Quintessential Grilled Cheese Sandwich," made with gold leaf, ... Ore., sells a line of edible gold-leaf icons modeled after spiritual iconography.

Immortalized As 'The Woman In Gold,' How A Young Jew Became A Secular Icon Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was seized by the Nazis. A film now tells the story of Adele's niece ...

In the Orthodox Christian tradition, icons are said to be written, not painted. ... The gold is so thin. I use 24-carat gold leaf, which comes in a book of 24 sheets. I breathe on it.

Each is embellished with gold leaf, echoing Byzantine icons, and partially submerged in tar. The height of the tar roughly marks the amount of time the person spent in prison, ...

Painted with such materials as egg tempura and gold leaf, icons portray God, the saints and other sacred objects. They came to have a near-sacred status, raising the issue of whether they were ...

Adding the gold leaf, Trung says, was to “elevate the dish aesthetically … so it does not simply look like an ordinary bowl of noodle soup.” Chef Trung puts the finishing touches on the pho ...

Adding the gold leaf, Trung says, was to “elevate the dish aesthetically … so it does not simply look like an ordinary bowl of noodle soup.” Chef Trung puts the finishing touches on the pho ...