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Piero Macchioni
Too Many Vegetables and a Jar for Kinks 😵

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Too Many Vegetables and a Jar for Kinks 😵

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

07 Oct 2026
Eat Things You Peel, Not Things You Unwrap 🍌

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Eat Things You Peel, Not Things You Unwrap 🍌

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:

30 Sep 2026
Green Lasagna and Cheese Crackers 🧀

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Green Lasagna and Cheese Crackers 🧀

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&

23 Sep 2026
Carbonara Noodles and Burnt Toast Theories 🥪

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Carbonara Noodles and Burnt Toast Theories 🥪

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

16 Sep 2026
Grand Slam Drinks and Siren Sushi  🧜🏻‍♀️

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Grand Slam Drinks and Siren Sushi 🧜🏻‍♀️

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

09 Sep 2026
Italian Milk Pie and the Hobby  Fad 🥛

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Italian Milk Pie and the Hobby Fad 🥛

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.

02 Sep 2026
Cheesecake Wars and Western Europe Delights 🍰

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Cheesecake Wars and Western Europe Delights 🍰

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

26 Aug 2026
Road Trip Snacks and Tomato Sorbet 🍅

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Road Trip Snacks and Tomato Sorbet 🍅

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

05 Aug 2026
The Killer Salad and the Peppery Taste of the Stars 😝

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The Killer Salad and the Peppery Taste of the Stars 😝

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

29 Jul 2026
Fiesta bits and scorpions on a stick 🦂

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Fiesta bits and scorpions on a stick 🦂

Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to braise ox penis in curry in explicit violation of the sacred rules of hospitality Hi there! Last week I've been busy with a few things, plus days and days of an annoying heatwave that drained all my energies. Did I

22 Jul 2026
Something Fresh, Something Wet 🧊

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Something Fresh, Something Wet 🧊

Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to wrap your head around the idea that Summer is made for cooling dishes, jelly popsicles, and lonely mouths Hi there! All quiet here. Enjoy the issue! Piero ✹Massimo Bottura, chef, nailed that. Hungry for hunger “Lonely mouth" refers to a Japanese

08 Jul 2026
¡Madrid!¡Madrid!¡Madrid! 🇪🇸

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¡Madrid!¡Madrid!¡Madrid! 🇪🇸

Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to try eating and cooking like a Spaniard, happy, fatty, and sodden in olive oil. Hi there! I spent 48+ hours in Madrid, Spain. Two days that started with a fried squid sandwich and ended with a café con hielo, the works. Except

01 Jul 2026
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