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An exclusive newsletter, the best place to start your day finding something ephemeral and joyful like a bubble gum balloon (and tons of Thanksgiving ideas)

Hi there!

If you're American, you're probably shopping for Thanksgiving. Or maybe you've already have had enough of that word. Bad news: today's recipes are all about Thanksgiving (Nov 25, btw).

The good news is: don't discard them; if you get them one by one, you get a blueprint of single meal ideas perfect for many autumn days.

One mistake we often make is wanting it all, all at one time. Instead, we can have something meaningful every single day, if we just play it right.

That should be something to be thankful for. Something ephemeral and joyful like a pink bubble gum balloon.

Piero

Picture: Raymond Depardon, Glasgow, 1980Sèrie / Fondation Cartier / Triennale

THE BEST QUOTE WE'LL READ TODAY

I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of - to assert the reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains - is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever increasing enjoyment.

→ M.F.K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf

TRIVIA DAY
GUESS THE BEST ALT-MILK

Which vegan milk is best for the environment? You guess:

_1_ DAIRY
_2_ RICE
_3_ SOY
_4_ OAT
_5_ ALMOND

Answer at the bottom of this newsletter (or just click a link).

Photo by Nikolai Chernichenko on Unsplash

FAMILY BOOK

Any given dinner
★★1/2

From Downunder, Lucy Tweed's book is perfect if you're looking for an entertaining, fun, and practical way of cooking for your family. Plus, all the recipes have killer names.

Every. Night. Of. The. Week. by Lucy Tweed
→ Shortplot: 🥣 🍳 🍖 🍽

RANDOM ACTS OF HUNGER
This is a space where I share some food (un)related stuff of my week

🦃 It's time to shop for Thanksgiving, or at least to finally watch Alison Roman's TS Special and copy her stuffing (★recipes - in .pdf format as well) 🍷 The Thanksgiving Menu of Food52's Wildest Dreams (★recipe) 🥧 24 Main Course Alternatives to Turkey for Thanksgiving, you're served (★recipe) 👩🏽 I always post this Thanksgiving menu for one person, one pan and one pot (★recipe) but this one is not bad at all 🐐A Spanish soft goat's cheese called Quesos y Besos is the best cheese in the world right now 🦷 YouTube Dentist Anthony Baroud answers the most difficult question: coffee first or brush first? ⌛️ A very useful food timeline so you can surprise your friend with trivia like: which came first, the kimchi or the Swedish meatballs? 📺 Kittch wants to be the Twitch for chefs and dining lovers 🌊 Do you live in one of the 9 cities that could be underwater by 2030? 💌 Newsletters are the Internet’s unkillable app, please stick with this one

FOOD FOR LATER

Breakfast, three ways

Elodie Barnes / mishmash

Three scenes about our favorite meal of the day. Pure poetry.

The Culinary World of Pompeii

Sally Grainger / LoH Museum

"For many years, historians believed that Roman society was divided into elites dining with excessive gluttony, while teeming millions of ordinary Romans subsisted on an enforced vegetarian diet. This polarized image has been replaced, largely because of the kind of evidence we see in Pompeii, with a far more complex picture".

Worried about waste and having too much stuff? Get rid of the fitted kitchen

Rachel Cooke / The Guardian

"The fashion for massed ranks of gleaming cupboards is rapidly diminishing – one symptom of which is a similar reduction in our hunger to own kitchen kit". What?

SEASON2 - ISSUE 55
Secret Breakfast is a newsletter by Piero Macchioni

Trivia answer: Dairy is the biggest loser, a glass of it is made by 0.63 kg of emissions, consumes 1.79 square meters of land, and 126.6 liters of water. Almond has the lowest emissions (0.14), but it consumes water (74.3); oat and soy look much more sustainable.