EditorialPate à choux dough is piped along the inside of a circle drawn on parchment for a Paris-Brest recipe in New York, Dec. 20, 2022. Food styled by Simon Andrews. (Armando Rafael/The New York Times)
EditorialA 19th-century ivory memorandum book and a fragment of a parchment Torah, right, part of the “Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day” exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York, on Nov. 30, 2022. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)