Built along a jumbled, rocky canyon in the scrubby high desert between Flagstaff and Phoenix, the experimental town of Arcosanti is a place of pilgrimage for people who love architecture and design.
You can go see Johnny Marr because you’re nostalgic for the Smiths if you want to, but for his part, he’ll be focused on songs from his latest album, Call the Comet.
Executive Pastry Chef Claude Escamilla and his team deconstructed and reimagined what Americans best recognize as a dense brick of sweetness lost in cream-cheese frosting. “Everything together, you feel it is a carrot cake but with a little twist,” Escamilla says.
The idea for this month’s feature, “Amazing Arizona,” came out of this random effulgence of enthusiasm — at once singular and choral — from Desert Companion writers at one of our coffee-splashed, bagel-fueled story pitch roundtables.
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