KYOTO, Japan — On a recent Saturday morning, Sayoko Sugiyama was busy making some warabi mochi, a soft and chewy confection that is just one of the many delicate traditional Japanese sweets called wagashi. It was a regular workday for Ms. Sugiyama and three of the six part-time workers she employs at Okashimaru, her online…
Aluminum is the most abundant metal on earth. So why would a fine-jewelry designer choose to work with it rather than gold or platinum, which are far more precious? Some recent creations suggest that one of the reasons is the rainbow of colors that is produced when it is anodized — the spontaneous, natural result…
Gwyneth Paltrow, wellness guru, entrepreneur and actress, has given the world many things: conscious uncoupling, rectal ozone therapy and, now, a week and a half into that limited series officially known as Sanderson v. Paltrow and unofficially as the Gwyneth Paltrow Ski Crash Trial that is taking place in Park City, Utah, and streaming on…
In “Crown to Couture,” a show scheduled to open April 5 at Kensington Palace in London, aristocratic fashion from the 18th century is paired with items worn by a different type of royalty: contemporary celebrities such as Rihanna, Billy Porter, Lizzo and Katy Perry. The exhibition, which runs through Oct. 29, is meant to examine…
“To me, there’s no pessimism in it,” said Mr. Piepenbring, who coordinated The Paris Review’s “Mating” book club in 2015, when he worked at the magazine. “That was exactly the kind of relationship I wanted to be in.” Korby Lenker, a singer-songwriter, artist and writer in Nashville, said he was introduced to the novel through…
Jay Tracy was just trying to solve a problem: He wanted to identify which cucumber varieties might perform best in hot, dry Tucson, Ariz., where he lived in 2009. Traditional cucumbers didn’t like it much there, especially in summer. And while he’d had better luck with the basic long, straight Armenian type, he wasn’t crazy…
It feels like a luxury in New York too, to eat sopa de maní on a cold and bright winter afternoon, at a plank of a table under a makeshift roof in Sunnyside, Queens. This is where Bolivian Llama Party makes its claim for Bolivian food as essential to the city. The owners are three…
For six years, the Grand Fiesta Americana in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, catered to guests looking for relaxation and romance — as long as they left the kids at home. But in 2021, when the property, the sole adults-only all-inclusive resort in town, was acquired by Hilton, its new owners made a hard pivot. What was…