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25 October 2005
{ Breakfast is the new black }
My phone alarm went off this morning at precisely 07h20. I rolled off my bed and shuffled across the room to my dresser, where my vibrating phone was trying half-heartedly to hide itself under my scooter helmet. It took me a minute of fumbling around with my phone to turn off the alarm—before leaving for Paris I had changed all the menus to French, and in my early-morning grogginess I could never seem to figure out what anything said—but after having succeeded, I retreated to my bed. When my back-up alarm clock went off five minutes later, I knew it was time to get ready for work, but I stayed in bed for a minute longer.I finally flipped my legs off to one side, which rotated my body until it was perpendicular with my bed, and I tilted my head backward to peek through the blinds of my window. The dim sky was still a dull gray along the horizon, but a subtle blue tint was emerging further up. Thinking that this whole thing would make a good short story, I tried to focus on these sorts of romantic details, but I couldn't help but laugh a little at how facetious it all sounded in my head. I'm no Fitzgerald.
After getting dressed, I walked into the kitchen. The sliding door had been left open during the night, and the cold air made the hairs on my bare arms stand on end.
I had fallen out of the habit of eating breakfast since starting my job at the beginning of September, but thumbing through some breakfast recipes the night before had rekindled my interest in the concept of taking three meals a day.
Our neighbors had brought us a plate of Halloween cupcakes the day before, and they were still sitting on the counter as I poked around for some food. I eyed them hesitantly, but I eventually decided that a cupcake would be exactly the right amount of food to hold me over until lunch (or rather, until those two stale cookies that were given to me by a secretary as I waited for a printing estimate at work). Under normal circumstances I would have felt guilty for eating a cupcake so early in the morning, but Martha had recently proclaimed on her show that they were one of the hottest food items in New York this year, and that was justification enough for me. Trendiness shouldn't be limited to select hours of the day.
I tried to legitimize my chocolate-frosted breakfast by eating it over a small plate, but the pumpkin-shaped candy corn that topped the cupcake still seemed out of place. Feeling as though I had skipped out on the most important parts of a "complete balanced breakfast", I thought about supplementing the meal with a banana, but I ended up just washing it down with a glass of water before hurrying off to work.
Thanks to my newfound appreciation for breakfast, I've found the motivation to start planning other morning meals. Coming attractions: a toasted bagel lightly smeared with peanut butter and sprinkled with sesame seeds and raisins, and plain oatmeal drizzled with maple syrup and topped with diced apples and cashews.
[ posted by Matthew Chrislip at 13:49 :
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6 Comments:
here is my favorite new breakfast:
one banana \ sliced
half an orange \ cut into pieces
place above ingredients into a bowl and add a handful or two of each of the following (to your tastes, of course):
raisins
raw sunflower seeds \ soaked for 8 hours, then dried
raw buckwheat groats \ soaked for 8-12 hours, then dried
raw almonds \ soaked for 8-12 hours, then dried and chopped
you can of course use different fruits and nuts. the idea is to eat fresh, raw, balanced, and delicious :)
and to think all that time i served cupcakes with home bottled peaches for breakfast i was "trendy". wow.
raw is the new cupcake!
raw vegan is trendy, too... but definitely more LA than NYC.
For the record, Martha never said that cupcakes were trendy for breakfast. She just said they were trendy. :)
Impressing insights about American breakfasts!
French petit déjeuner is much less sophisticated: cup of chocolate with pain au chocolat or croissant with butter. The French are lazier than the Americans.
Bon appétit.
Pierre
i like pierre's breakfast - it is my winter bedtime snack--minus the bread but adding marshmallows.
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