Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start picking your dough, fall in love with one Canadian chef, and learn the subtle joy of being underprepared Hi there! What I’m proudest of, and always forget: seven years of food newsletters where you never had to comment “recipe” to
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