Try This Culinary Puzzle (or the Roman Pizza) 🧩
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start playing word quizzes, baking with blue-iron trays, and living the slop life
Hi there!
Sometimes (my) life gets complicated. Time can seem abundant until suddenly it's not, which is why this is the shortest Secret Breakfast issue ever.
That's not entirely bad—it just means more time for you.
Have a great week!
Piero
✹Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures. This novel, how could I forget about that? "Tova, a widow working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, is aided in solving a mystery by Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living there". I had octopus for dinner yesterday, by the way (★recipe)
A Culinary Trends Word Game for You
You know what? Find the 15 culinary terms hidden in the grid. Words can appear horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
Try this: the first three you see will be your next cooking experiment.
PS: The first I saw was FAT, which wasn't even on the list.
🇮🇳The Most Popular Sandwich in Mumbai: the spiced potatoes Vada Pav (★recipe and video) 🧁Why You Should Cream Butter and Sugar 🥮5 Textures for Basque Cheesecake, Find Yours (★recipe) 🌼Pineapple Flowers Trick (★recipe) 🫕Le Creuset vs. Staub vs. Lodge: Which Dutch Oven Should You Get? 🍕I Tried Roman Pizza Rossa at Home (★recipe, or alternative) and the Absolute Game-Changer Was the Blue-Iron Baking Tray (like this one)
Living the Slop Life
Emma Goldberg / The New York Times
"Slop" refers to the overwhelming, often low-quality, and unsettlingly non-human stream of content, products, and experiences generated by artificial intelligence and mass production that inundate our daily lives. This "slop" manifests as AI-generated images and text, fast-casual "bowls" that prioritize efficiency over craft, and endlessly replenishing fast fashion items, all sharing a consistent quality of being somewhat "off," limitless, and eerily homogeneous, leading to a sense of mental fatigue and a scattering of thoughts. Can you relate?
