CHICAGO — The medium may indeed be the message, as Marshall McLuhan once told us, but what to make of a recent morning watching a group of people making messages and then eating them with delight?
Esteemed artist Nick Cave was standing alongside his creative and life partner Bob Faust inside Eli’s Cheesecake bakery/retail shop/cafe on the city’s Northwest Side. They were wearing gloves and decorating mini cheesecakes, very tiny mini cheesecakes known as Cuties, one-inch by one-inch morsels.
They were aided by some enthusiastic young pastry chefs as well as Marc and Maureen Schulman, the couple that runs the operation. They were all in the playful business of dipping tiny cheesecakes into vats of variously colored chocolate and affixing symbols on their tops.
