> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://secretbreakfast.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Christmas Deliciousness and the Crumbl Cookies Illusion 🎄 - URL: https://secretbreakfast.com/christmas-soup/ - Published: 2024-12-10T09:29:07.000Z - Updated: 2024-12-10T09:29:07.000Z - Description: SB212 - Author: Piero - Tags: newsletter, #beehiiv, #beehiiv-visibility-all-free-subscribers, #Import 2025-02-21 13:06 # Welcome to Secret Breakfast / An exclusive newsletter, the best place for eating Anthony Bourdain’s Soupe de Poisson, tasting pretentious ingredients, and living any kind of unrelated experience ![Looking up. Notre Dame de Paris, by Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times](https://secretbreakfast.com/content/images/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down-format=auto-onerror=redirect-quality=80/uploads/asset/file/0970be9a-7dc1-454b-8654-6322bf419cdc/capture_2024-12-10_alle_12-33-21.jpg) Looking up. Notre Dame de Paris, by Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times Hi there! They made it. The Notre Dame Cathedral reopened its doors within five years of the devastating 2019 fire. As if we were living in a chapter of [*The Pillars of the Earth*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FPillars%5Fof%5Fthe%5FEarth?%5Fbhlid=d68a4c1ea202f0de9326026a15ad16d80a06e379&ref=secretbreakfast.com) by Ken Follett, people (and money) were stronger than ashes and destruction. **Still, fire and ashes are endangering lives in many other places.** Like Damascus, Gaza, or parts of Africa, where there have been so many military coups recently. Somalia, Yemen, and Chad are at the top of the Global Hunger Index. In Kabul and Teheran, women face oppression and are excluded from society. That said, the year ends, and - yes - the world looks famished as always was. The hunger for food where people have nothing. The hunger for justice where there is no real law. We play with food, we love that, but sometimes we also need to pause and look up. Piero **ONE ✤ QUOTE** ![](https://secretbreakfast.com/content/images/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down-format=auto-onerror=redirect-quality=80/uploads/asset/file/4e502f3e-4638-4c6e-bbf4-f19848ef40e8/rooney.png) ✦ **Sally Rooney,** [*Intermezzo*](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374602635/intermezzo/?%5Fbhlid=85d769d13e45aa5195e130b88de3ca49def8295b&ref=secretbreakfast.com). ![](https://secretbreakfast.com/content/images/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down-format=auto-onerror=redirect-quality=80/uploads/asset/file/a71d10cf-96c2-4a3f-b272-f856e69658f5/blue_zigzag_lines_store_header__3.png) ![](https://secretbreakfast.com/content/images/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down-format=auto-onerror=redirect-quality=80/uploads/asset/file/e6945948-8002-4971-939f-a194eaaf34b3/capture_2024-12-10_alle_11-01-37.jpg) [Eating and Being: A History of Ideas About Our Food and Ourselves ](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo236372525.html?%5Fbhlid=d5145444acde9ea8cfaabd9b9ff6379024d3ee7a&ref=secretbreakfast.com)by Steven Shapin **→ Shortplot:** 🍅🌽 🍝🌱 ![](https://secretbreakfast.com/content/images/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down-format=auto-onerror=redirect-quality=80/uploads/asset/file/a34b217a-cae3-4cac-80c8-bdf5f30996f4/blue_zigzag_lines_store_header__6.png) ## **THE SIMPSONS, ft. CHEF’S TABLE, ft. RUTH REICHL** [](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDPr-mRPZpb?%5Fbhlid=3afb6b3614fdfc0276a64cde930da912c8d38779&ref=secretbreakfast.com) Nothing to add, your honor. ![Juicy content from food creators](https://secretbreakfast.com/content/images/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down-format=auto-onerror=redirect-quality=80/uploads/asset/file/a776550c-eefa-4d3e-b067-0438f295b874/blue_zigzag_lines_store_header__2.png) Juicy content from food creators [](https://www.instagram.com/p/DC9DUMzhKOr/?%5Fbhlid=34c61f58e953ceb0d03a445ff1bd1c92c4069a67&ref=secretbreakfast.com) ![This is the space where I share some food (un)related stuff of my week](https://secretbreakfast.com/content/images/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down-format=auto-onerror=redirect-quality=80/uploads/asset/file/cdcd47f2-b8f2-4683-a706-d790e01c1c57/random-full_b__1.png) This is the space where I share some food (un)related stuff of my week 🎄If I Could… My childhood go-to dish for Christmas Eve Dinner: Anthony Bourdain's Soupe de Poisson (★[recipe](https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/soupe-de-poisson?%5Fbhlid=fc5a0bc37afcb6e95aa8e812ad0b5c7b43a822c2&ref=secretbreakfast.com)) with Rouille (★[recipe](https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/rouille-anthony-bourdain?%5Fbhlid=ea68b4866fb7bc21b188605c13d1eb52dc26ecde&ref=secretbreakfast.com)) 🎅🏻Lunch on the 25th: Modena Style Tortellini (★[recipe](https://www.visitmodena.it/en/discover-modena/land-of-flavors/local-recipes/tortellini?%5Fbhlid=a551d001ec352fc0abfea4e1198b035b734f4dec&ref=secretbreakfast.com)) 🍄Or this Veg alternative: Artusi’s Famous Mushroom Ragu (★[recipe](https://food52.com/recipes/78108-l-artusi-s-famous-mushroom-ragu-with-fresh-garganelli?%5Fbhlid=e59f378c44e7dcec635ac85a25a60bf2b76c80a0&ref=secretbreakfast.com)) 🇮🇹A repository of Italian Christmas Ideas (★[recipes](https://www.cookingwithnonna.com/italian-cuisine/christmas-recipes.html?%5Fbhlid=1842067783c1fa6bd0b28827c7c27969dc99b5de&ref=secretbreakfast.com)) ☕️“Mocha Mousse” was dubbed 2025′s color of the year by the Pantone Color Institute, now you make some (★[recipe](https://food52.com/recipes/11243-mocha-mousse?%5Fbhlid=60931947a73375dce17461193eb11e5f57a44cad&ref=secretbreakfast.com)) 🇩🇰[Noma Was Supposed to Close. That’s Definitely Not Happening](https://www.grubstreet.com/article/noma-not-closing-after-all.html?%5Fbhlid=c0e3991c8994b1882f53397b39b19ef2c57b4dc9&ref=secretbreakfast.com) 🥚Eggnog Gingerbread Tiramisu Mugs (★[recipe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1opzdOj-jI&%5Fbhlid=6cec5476fd176abfebfdf58218cbb3460a293054&ref=secretbreakfast.com)) 🌶️How To Invent A New Vegetable ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZr2Q61mxzs&%5Fbhlid=cd8fb7bb19fc3a128d7b40f9b891f0b182874ee7&ref=secretbreakfast.com)) ☕️👨🏾‍🍳[Chef vs Normal: Taste Testing Pretentious Ingredients ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDVRl-YW5dw&%5Fbhlid=eaee43fed61bea571b07d1aa3da00560c97daf39&ref=secretbreakfast.com)🍕In Pizza Heaven it’s always 950°, and this is [the oven you need](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/at-home-pizza-oven-cooking/680760/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZwFVPyYXKZulZQxJHg08XHQ&%5Fbhlid=13ec834cf9ed4ae7b2ad62ea073965d4bac4107f&ref=secretbreakfast.com) at home (better in the backyard) ☕️Some [Coffee recipes](https://leaflet.pub/ce4daf68-5749-4943-9111-4401db9ce77a?%5Fbhlid=461ed85ce6f32dbae65b43fe3af5e62755a0d33a&ref=secretbreakfast.com) on this super-nice content platform called Leaflet 🤖[Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?](https://thewalrus.ca/collapse-of-self-worth-in-the-digital-age/?%5Fbhlid=2be190dfc3f2f4d4ad93b00c620a2a539d9e7e50&ref=secretbreakfast.com) ![](https://secretbreakfast.com/content/images/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down-format=auto-onerror=redirect-quality=80/uploads/asset/file/be74643a-4623-4922-9944-19fdcccb1540/blue_zigzag_lines_store_header__1.png) --- --- **➤ Last week's most clicked link was** [**The 2023 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide**](https://kottke.org/23/11/the-2023-kottke-holiday-gift-guide?%5Fbhlid=c2fcaa78bbc68c2e91dbe4aee982f41219c8c1e4&ref=secretbreakfast.com)**. And that's all for today.** **SEASON 5 • ISSUE 212** Secret Breakfast is a newsletter by [Piero Macchioni](https://macchioni.cc/?%5Fbhlid=e02cae13803fcacdbaebc500756c9127c6768819&ref=secretbreakfast.com). In five years we have shared more than 5,000 recipes, hundreds of books, and countless hours of news, gluttony, and joy.