EditorialAn Egyptian falafel pizza with a sesame-seed crust served at a Traze pop-up inside Fifth Hammer Brewing in Queens, April 26, 2023. (DeSean McClinton-Holland/The New York Times)
EditorialIskandar with Daryush's tokens. Sharafnama. Bengal, probably Gur, 1531-1532. Iskandar takes the polo sticks, ball and sesame seed sent by Daryush as a portent of Daryush's impending downfall. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of ...