Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start serving the best portion of a good person's life, while watching rom-com bits and air-frying banana slices Hi there! This 2026 is having a rough start. Some soft vibes are needed. Hope you find some here today. Piero ✹Allen
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start considering that man is the pie that bakes and eats himself on a neverending glucose roller coaster Hi there! Has 2026 started well for you? I don't put much stock in New Year's resolutions, but I do
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start the ending of the year, or ending what you started too late, dreaming about yaupon tea, minibar shots and grandmacore Hi there! I could bore you with a navel-gazing essay about the year just passed. But I care about you too
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start a newsletter cursing in Italian and dreaming about French oysters you'll never have Hi there! Have you heard the news? UNESCO has officially recognized Italian cuisine as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Well, as we say in Rome
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start baking surreal biscuits, spreading avocado on messy open sandwiches because - you know - nobody wants to be a foodie anymore Hi there! How's your binge-watching level these days? I'm obsessed with Pluribus, in which a hive
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to set up a fabulous grazing board, reserve the best chef's table and refuse having meals served in a slapdash fashion Hi there! Sprints have become the heartbeat of many contemporary companies — intense, time-boxed pushes that force focus, collaboration, and rapid
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to feel like an amoeba, then start baking 20+ kinds of Christmas cookies after you cooked for Thanksgiving Hi there! I was reading this super-cool feature by Ronald W. Dworkin called The Amoeba and the Mathematician. The essay argues that in the AI
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start baking with heart-shaped tins, freezing egg wraps and dreaming about ant-fermented yogurt Hi there! I don't know about yours, but my days have been chaos. Last week I wasn't sharp enough to write a decent newsletter, so
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to serve meals drawing inspiration from Russian film makers and Internet subcultures, while dreaming about healthy drinks and sandwiches with pickles replacing the bread Hi there! Have you ever heard about the Kuleshov Effect? It is simple: show an actor's neutral
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to meet with crazy theoretical physicists, wild pickle makers, and audacious cheese&coffee drinkers Hi there! I was watching this video with the theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, where he talks about trees, and it completely flipped my perspective. Everyone looks at a
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to feel trendy for using beef tallow, because - in a landscape of infinite digital choice - recipes survive only if they seduce Hi there! We have the 8 Biggest Food Trends for 2026, according to Whole Foods. A few caveats: Whole Foods
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start reading Captain Marvel's Cookbook while drinking cold-brew coffee in a ghost kitchen, where I’d sell my soul to have a taste of a magnificent life that’s all mine Hi there! I have a story for you. After
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to bake pumpkin Basque cheesecake and make sourdough gelato while living the last days of social media Hi there! The other day I was thrilled because a pizza place I loved in Rome opened in my city. Pizza it's still good,
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start cooking with Brad Pitt, dating messy chefs and spreading spicy Taipei butter over rice Hi there! Have you heard the news? Wise House executive chef is expected to announce that using flour in federal kitchens raises food poisoning risk, despite lack
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / A newsletter at the intersection of food intersections and cooking intersections. With a side of mushroom intersections Hi there! We live at the intersection of exhaustion and buzzwords. Every startup now positions itself "at the intersection" of two trendy concepts. Platformer sits "at
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start cooking stuff at the exact temperature of your fever, dreaming about soju, eggless breakfasts, and corn cookies Hi there! Today, I'm not ok. Less editing and more food. It's not that bad, then. Piero ✹Fredrik Backman, My
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start pouring brown butter into your Bibimbap, while baking Scottish morning rolls and Shrek-dating Hi there! This week you will find few recipes (but ones to save forever) and two very intense (even if a bit somber) long reads. It happened a
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to get into exploited monkeys and gentrified kitchens, while baking Turkish potato cakes and Palestinian vegetables, never mistaking bad taste for liberation Hi there! I'm really pleased with the recipes in this issue. And the monkey story is compelling, though the
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start the day by being late, mixing waffles and red velvet, while setting fire to your precious canned fish Hi there! Raise your hand if you forgot the extremely rare laptop power cable at home before travelling. No? Well, I did. Then,
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start shaving peaches, brewing muddy coffee, drinking every cocktail and discovering the importance of manners when you're spending time in a restaurant Hi there! Where were we? Or - better - where have I gone? Funny story: I skipped a
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start singing at Wembley, having omakase in New York, or baking Pizza with the Fantastic Four Hi there! Liam and Noel Gallagher are definitely creating the tour of the year. After 15 years of silence, Oasis Live '25 proves we live
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place where you can invite somebody into your heart by making salads, freezing cucumbers, and serving bizarre concoctions Hi there! As Stephen King wrote in Never Flinch, one drink is too many and a thousand are never enough. Stay hydrated and have some fun.
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start eating like a champion and harvesting micro vegetables, while turning cities into selfie backdrops Hi there! How was your week? Mine in one paragraph: due to a sudden water pipe issue my kitchen was dismantled, leaving me unable to cook for
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to recycle Greek Yogurt, fill butter with radish, and enjoy cooking when it’s hot outside Hi there! I think you've noticed Artificial Intelligence is becoming our new Google Search. Especially since Google placed a Gemini answer at the top of