The modern apartments, neatly tucked in a low building of peachy coloured stone, are fresh, simple and uncluttered; their style is clean and crisp, their colours bright and sunny.
You don't think Burial when you hear it, but weird, monomaniac soul: D'Angelo's "Voodoo," Stevie Wonder's "Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants," Sly and the Family Stone's "Fresh".
There are some fancy spots, of course, but why bother with trumped-up fine dining when you can stop at River Market in White Stone for fresh melon soup (in season) or she-crab bisque year round?
"We use Anson Mills grits," Mr. Chang said, "because they're whole, stone-ground, fresh, and taste like corn".
Fish and live grass snakes in glass cages... not to mention his favourite, the old rabbit, which hopped about among moss, stones and fresh leafy branches".
The stones were fresh from the infamously lethal Muzo mine in Colombia, and as a favor to a good friend who had smuggled them into the country, I'd flown to New York the day before to meet with a gem dealer, the father of a college friend from Brooklyn who had "connections".
But nobody does it better than La Tortillería, which makes tortillas according to the traditional Aztec nixtamal method, by lime-soaking and stone-grinding fresh wholegrain corn, then baking the masa on-site before your eyes (rather than by making a dough from processed corn flour and water).
During the day, visitors laze in the beach chairs along the stones, enjoy fresh fish in the beachfront restaurants or head out on the water in jet skis.
The exposure of fresh stone allows the study of stone decay patterns under real-world environmental conditions, however, there are a number of issues that must be considered.
