Fromage

Just yesterday I found myself dreaming that if I was a gazillionaire and cared at all about fancy cheeses, I'd hang out at the Bedford Cheese Shop all the time, only because it's my favorite Dickensian-looking joint in the neighborhood; it's the kind of building I fantasize is all over London.

And then this morning I stumble upon an article detailing the practical use of the corner store-styled building that is so prevalent throughout New Orleans, an "architectural oddity that is repeated around the city. A closer look shows that the traditional style, although strange to outsiders, developed for perfectly reasonable aesthetic purposes."