The Most Beautiful Rice Rolls and the Most Expensive Date Night 🌺
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 on nostalgia, or at least believe in reconciliation. Or maybe we're convinced that two such elements lose strength when separated, while together they satisfy our hunger for legend and tension.
You know what they made me think of? Beer and whisky? That too, but mostly butter and sugar in the history of pastry-making.
For centuries - not just 15 years - they lived in parallel worlds: butter in Alpine huts and Norman farms; sugar first as wild honey, then as cane in Caribbean colonies.
It was only in the 18th century, when trade routes stabilized and the European bourgeoisie discovered the art of confectionery, that these two ingredients truly met. The first butter-sugar creaming changed the taste of the West forever. The cookies we know today were born, modern cakes, the entire pastry tradition. A total revolution, though not quite like the musical one of Oasis in the Nineties.
That said, I still prefer Sable Bretons cookies (★recipe) to Oasis. But you already knew that.
Piero
✹Paul Murray, The Bee Sting. My next reading. I also need pizza.
Date night, the price is right
After watching Materialists, I couldn't stop thinking about that brutal Nobu scene. Lucy (Dakota Johnson) asks Harry (handsy Pedro Pascal) if romance really needs to cost a fortune, and his casual "Doesn't it?" hits like financial whiplash. The camera pans across the restaurant's luxury interior, exposing the vast economic chasm between her practical dating mindset and his effortless four-figure dinners.
Director Celine Song chose restaurants as class markers with surgical precision. The film showcases a Manhattan dining spectrum: from Nobu Downtown (averaging $135 per person, at the lower end) and the French-Japanese tasting menu at L'Abeille, to Joseph Leonard's accessible oyster bar and Birdy's dive bar afterparty spot.
The film's central question emerges clearly: does dropping $300-500 on dinner actually amplify romance?
Song seems skeptical. The expensive peonies and omakase sessions at Sushi Ichimura feel performative next to Lucy's Coke-and-beer order.
Romance lives in attention, not expense accounts. Nevertheless, dates are performative, aren't they?
I have no problem admitting that romance - if you're a food lover - also lives in exciting dinner experiences. And those can have a million different price tags.
PS: if you wanna read more about the movie real estate...
- Where Was Materialists Filmed?
- The $12-Million Apartment in ‘Materialists’ Is a Real Home in NYC—Here’s What We Know About It
99% Instagram dump this week, sorry about that
4️⃣The Fantastic Four Make Pizza (video) 📕The Sandwich Book 🍎No flour. No sugar. No dairy. No eggs. The 2-Ingredient Apple Sponge (★recipe) 👹More Labubu Food 🧋The Tea Sommelier Cold-Brew Summer Tea (★recipe) 🦐Skull Island prawns with dashi butter, shoyu sesame and samphire (★recipe) or just Skull Island Prawn Toast with peppers and honey siracha (no recipe) 🌭The Vegetarian Courgette Hot-Dog ❄️12 Freezer-Friendly Foods to Keep on Hand 🍗The Perfect Chicken Tender (★recipe) 🥞Fluffy, chocolatey Pancakes (★recipe) 🧮Are Food Patterns a Thing, Now?
Diary of a Popcorn Seller
Lucy Fitzgerald / Vittles
From the quiet calm of pre-opening rituals to the bustling chaos of a weekend rush, Lucy offers a delightful and often humorous glimpse into the daily grind. Discover the "ceremony" of serving customers, the "weirder, disparate flavours" people combine with their popcorn, and the unique dynamics of "Lover's Window" transactions. You'll even get a peek into the "popcorn bucket boom" and the subtle art of sweeping up "chemtrails of our flight".
