Good morning. I love Kay Chun’s recipe for sesame salmon bowls (above), inspired by the sushi dish known as chirashi, which comes from the Japanese word for “scattered.” It’s fast and flavorful. You make a version of sushi rice, the grains cooked in water and vinegar, then steam salmon on top and serve it with…
To hear the voices of older Americans who confront high drug costs month in and month out is to hear fear and worry, anger and stress. Many say they are figuring out how to get by, skipping vacations and other niceties for which they saved. For Kim Armbruster, 65, who recently retired after a 40-year…
A Five-Bedroom Beneath Table Mountain in Cape Town $4.7 MILLION (79.995 MILLION RAND) This five-bedroom home backs onto the slopes of Table Mountain in Oranjezicht, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. Set on about three quarters of an acre, the home is designed to mimic the landscape of the mountain, a prominent landmark, with…
I am treating my family to a special vacation in Alaska. My grandson, 28, and his wife are unable to join us; they are expecting a baby soon. I’m sorry they can’t come, but I was shocked when my grandson asked me for a cash gift equal to what I would have spent for them…
My professional encounters with meringue happened to follow a trajectory that took me from very small to extra-large. In my first job as an assistant to the pastry chef in a Michelin-starred French restaurant, I was helping with the petit fours. This involved piping minuscule meringue mounds onto tiny lemon tarts and then placing those…
LONDON — Sometime in the early hours of March 26, Paul McKeown woke up on the sidewalk for the second morning in a row. The 58-year-old retiree, an avid watch collector, had been sleeping outside the Carnaby Street store of the Swatch watch brand, waiting for it to start selling MoonSwatch, a new collection made…
For the last six months, Troy Barmore has left a precious keepsake at home in Brooklyn when he rides the subway into Manhattan — a stainless steel Rolex Submariner watch that once belonged to his father and was passed along to him as a college graduation gift. “I outright stopped wearing it on the subway,”…
“I feel so on my path right now,” the independent watchmaker Eva Leube said. “I’ve realized life is short, and I want to do something that resonates with me.” Over the years, her work in horology has taken Ms. Leube around the globe, from her native Berlin to jobs in Cape Town; Boca Raton, Fla.;…
TOKYO — Nineteen years ago, when he began working at a factory that made watch straps, Kunitaka Kojima thought they were just something that came along with a timepiece. “I underestimated watch straps,” he said. Now Mr. Kojima, 48, is an independent artisan who makes them by hand: “My wish is to make the most…
PARIS — Mellerio dits Meller has been creating jewelry and precious objets d’art since the Renaissance, giving it a plausible claim to being the oldest jewelry house in the world. Yet last month, it did something new: The company introduced a timepiece unlike any it had released before — the mechanical M Cut watch. “It’s…