With his first success as a commercial illustrator, Warhol indulged his taste for kitsch and somewhat desolate ephemera; an early apartment in New York was decorated with store signs, penny-arcade machines, carousel horses, a stuffed peacock and a table laid for a children's party (complete with Coke bottles and iced cookies) which he had saved from a shop-window display.
A place to drain wet produce such as washed vegetables as they air dry A place to leave iced cookies to dry.
The Red Barn Bakery offered a trove of baked goods, including old-fashioned iced molasses cookies ($6 for six), the sort of confection that might have once filled a cookie jar in the Jay family kitchen.
A bakery provided iced sugar cookies that read "Equality" and "Respect".
The cookies arrive on a large white plate, a selection that includes oatmeal-cranberry, white chocolate macadamia bars and iced sugar cookies.
The green, white and pink standard, resembling a washed-out Irish tricolour, is flown from rooftops, draped in shop windows, stencilled on T-shirts and even iced on cookies sold to tourists.
A lowered ceiling inset with lights gave off a warm glow, illuminating the pastry cabinet with Odwalla and Naked juices, marshmallow squares and iced sugar cookies, and sandwiches of tomato and mozzarella on ciabatta, turkey and pesto on baguette, and tarragon chicken salad.
Colorfully iced sugar cookies in the shape of the letters A, B and C, a pencil, an eraser, an apple and a sheet of lined paper (but, alas, no Pokemon cards) are tucked into a small tin lunchbox from Once Upon a Tart, 135 Sullivan Street (Prince Street).
My pick: the Mother's Day Medley (Regularly $39.95, Store Adore Price $32 --it 32 --it 32 --it brim with strawberry shortcake, chewy blondies, iced shortbread cookies and other scrumptious goodies.
