Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start inviting 1,500 for dinner, crunching frozen olive brine, and knitting lace cups in a pan Hi there! Last week life update: no newsletter, yes impossible workload. Last hours in Nate Silver's words: «Election Days are like going to
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start building furniture with marshmallow while quite a few places in Europe are on fire. Hi there! If revenge is a dish best served cold, what is revolution? A buffet. Everyone shows up hungry, no one agrees on the menu. Piero ✹Jean-
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start thinking that fridges are spaceships, and cheese is where land, animals and culture meet Hi there! At first, this issue is a random mess, as usual. But it’s also a reflection on the senses. That may sound extreme, but pleasure,
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start looking into a mirror and find french bistrot, cheeseburger pies, romance novels, and Venn diagrams Hi there! I kinda revamped some elements of the newsletter for the new season. The palette is 99% inspired by the Fondazione Dries Van Noten posters
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to reckon that splendor is a fruit, butter is better, and the opposite of the apocalypse is a neighborhood Hi there! Two phrases stuck with me in the last 24 hours, and both made me rethink how I eat every day. The first:
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The right place to ask why Oktoberfest starts in September, and how Lo-Fi music snuck into your cooking Hi there! On September 19th, Oktoberfest began in Germany, which literally means "October festival." So, naturally, it starts in September. It reminds me of Russia&
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start filling jars with brined cheese, filing for divorce, and finding that almost everything is better with a generous knob of butter Hi there! As Dazed writes, we're living through an explainer epidemic, where thoughtfluencers with tiny mics are part
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start considering that affluence separates people, and that mythological creatures don't make for ethical nigiri Hi there! Since The Odyssey hangover seems behind us, I think it's time I share this bookmark with you. The Lovers is an
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start wasting time is the kitchen, using paintings as cookbooks and learning that the sweetest date you can have doesn't necessarily involve another person Hi there! I hate Septembers that feel like Januarys on steroids. But here we go again.
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start reading a newsletter issue that's basically made of random notes about my latest journey across France through Northern Spain Hi there! As you may have noticed, I took a longer hiatus than I had expected because I was much
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to manufacture scarcity (and savory ice-creams or perfumes) as desire engine. Because eating is also a ridiculous activity Hi there! I'm probably on a train right now and I will be on a long journey next week (newsletter will be
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start filling an anxiety bag with flaming sardines, cornbread focaccia, and edible celestial bodies Hi there! We must be quick. I have to write about the "panic pouches", or "anxiety bags", that are supposed to be the Gen