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…
LONDON — By the time fall rolled around in 2020, Jessie Beaumont had been furloughed from her job as a studio manager and had done “all the usual banana bread and trying to get fit.” “I think I woke up one day and was like ‘Ah, you know, do you know? I should do something…
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…
I’ll give it to the Aritzia girlies for this one, these are SO soft. Whether you’re crushing a yoga class or running errands, the barely there, sweat-wicking fabric will have you reaching for these biker shorts every single time. Customer review: “I don’t wear biker shorts often, but when I do, they’re from Aritzia’s TnA…
While two dozen women took big, synchronized breaths, stretched their arms up and wobbled, one of the sheets covering the street-facing windows occasionally fell. Several of the women scurried over to tape it back up. This was necessary, after all, since everyone inside, at a dinner earlier this month on the Lower East Side, was…
From Fake Flirtation to Real Romance It was one of those Los Angeles evenings fragrant with bougainvillea and possibility. Before long, it was time to return to the party. The band was playing, but there was no music. She, in red satin, was a beacon among black dinner jackets. As we approached the bandstand, the…