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 independent animated film that involves a reluctant seafood chef, an crucial dinner, and a trapped siren. You can watch that for free but do so only if you wanna be shaken.
Disclaimer. This story bites and some of you might feel uncomfortable. Its ingredient are food but also grief, guilt, blood (some), jumping into the unknown, and whatever one can find in a story like this.
Things will get smoother from now on, I promise.
Piero
✹Ray Charles, musician, sugar philosopher and iconic shooting star.
I like Grand Slam tennis for the things you can eat or drink
Every Grand Slam has its own edible mascot now.
Wimbledon has strawberries and cream (no recipe needed). The US Open has the Honey Deuce (★recipe), a $23 cocktail with melon balls cut to look like yellow tennis balls. Roland Garros floats on Champagne. The Australian Open probably copied the American formula with its own star-loved Grey Goose Lemon Ace (★recipe, same commercial partner), or the other three cocktails they serve.
None of these are really about tennis. They're souvenirs you can drink.
Or you can fancy at home with friends.
🫖London Fog Earl Grey Chewy Cookies (★recipe and video) 🥟Quick pan "undumplinged dumplings" (★recipe) 🍸Salted Margarita Bars are not public places but cookies for adults (★recipe) 🥕Carrots cooked in spent coffee grounds (★recipe) 🌊Seaweed Soba (★recipe)🟡Small Batch GOOEY Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls – No Dairy, Vegan! (★recipe) 🥧Flakes of joy, cook with fillo (★recipes) 😎Spies, Black Ties, & Mango Pies is a cookbook by the CIA! 💄Beauty Advent Calendars are here already
What Happens When A Chef Loses Her Sense Of Taste
Olivia Tiedemann / Bustle (book excerpt)
Before 1.1 million TikTok followers and a debut cookbook, Tiedemann was a line cook chasing perfection to the point of burnout. She traces her path from an early mentor who calmed her chaos, through years in toxic kitchens, a bout of COVID that took her sense of taste for eight months, and a breaking point that pushed her out of restaurants entirely. A private chef gig in the Hamptons, cooked with total freedom, is what led her back to the stove and eventually onto camera..
Does Gen Z Have the Patience for Fine Dining?
Paloma Baygual Nespatti / Cultured
Five chefs, from Dominique Crenn to Flynn McGarry, on how Gen Z is reshaping fine dining. Less ritual, less alcohol, more freedom to choose how long to sit at the table. The camera is now another guest. Luxury, they say, is no longer scarcity but knowledge: knowing who grew what, and why.
