Please, don't try this at home
July 24 2012
Yikes - lurking on the internet is this video, which tells you to clean your painting with a baguette. Yes, a baguette. Over four thousand people have watched it. Which means that someone, somewhere has wrecked their favourite Old Master with a piece of bread.
Update - a reader writes:
OMG!!!
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