The Phantom of the Diner column

The creation of a beautiful croissant is no simple matter. The proper ingredients must be assembled: the perfect flour for the ambient climate, the correct yeast correctly handled, a quantity of rich European butter. The water must be pure and balanced… In the end, a single croissant is a product of a three-day creative process. And yet we have, here in Olympia, artists who attain such a level, and do so repeatedly, consistently, for the public good.

Oly Arts is happy to publish part two of the introduction to the new column of culinary and artistic delight by the mysterious Phantom: “The Phantom of the Diner,” — “On Edible Art, an Introduction, Part the Second.”

Oly Arts is happy to announce the beginning — joyfully starting in September 2026 — of a new column of culinary and artistic delight, “The Phantom of the Diner,” by a mysterious and erudite writer who identifies only as The Phantom, and who asserts that “There simply must be some right perspective in the world, … a hierarchy of principle and right order to our existence, even in our world of postmodern relativity.” So welcome, dear reader, to the world of The Phantom.