Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start serving the best portion of a good person's life, while watching rom-com bits and air-frying banana slices Hi there! This 2026 is having a rough start. Some soft vibes are needed. Hope you find some here today. Piero ✹Allen
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start the ending of the year, or ending what you started too late, dreaming about yaupon tea, minibar shots and grandmacore Hi there! I could bore you with a navel-gazing essay about the year just passed. But I care about you too
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start a newsletter cursing in Italian and dreaming about French oysters you'll never have Hi there! Have you heard the news? UNESCO has officially recognized Italian cuisine as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Well, as we say in Rome
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start baking surreal biscuits, spreading avocado on messy open sandwiches because - you know - nobody wants to be a foodie anymore Hi there! How's your binge-watching level these days? I'm obsessed with Pluribus, in which a hive
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to feel like an amoeba, then start baking 20+ kinds of Christmas cookies after you cooked for Thanksgiving Hi there! I was reading this super-cool feature by Ronald W. Dworkin called The Amoeba and the Mathematician. The essay argues that in the AI
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start baking with heart-shaped tins, freezing egg wraps and dreaming about ant-fermented yogurt Hi there! I don't know about yours, but my days have been chaos. Last week I wasn't sharp enough to write a decent newsletter, so
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to meet with crazy theoretical physicists, wild pickle makers, and audacious cheese&coffee drinkers Hi there! I was watching this video with the theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, where he talks about trees, and it completely flipped my perspective. Everyone looks at a
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to feel trendy for using beef tallow, because - in a landscape of infinite digital choice - recipes survive only if they seduce Hi there! We have the 8 Biggest Food Trends for 2026, according to Whole Foods. A few caveats: Whole Foods
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