Black buttercream, AI and Instant Ramen 🍜

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October 31, 2023

Welcome to Secret Breakfast / An exclusive newsletter, the best place to start your day with a three-handed-ramen-eating nymph, black butter, and gluten-free lemon curd cookies

Hi there!

There are a thousand reasons why we should not use AI for our digital products. One for all: because if something is human it has more value. It has the weight of authenticity.

Yet, I couldn’t resist asking DALL-E to draw a woman eating instant ramen in the style of Alfons Mucha.

She looks like she has a set of three hands, but when ramen is truly delicious, wouldn’t we love having one hand more to help out with the hot stuff? I bet we would.

Piero

PS: the book section is on holiday this week.

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THE BEST QUOTE

✦ Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating. First, thanks to Roberta R. who helped me remember that book. Second, the original passage is more subtle, and it’s not about triggering eating diseases.

I suppose food is a part of life that most humans can control. They give food a lot of power - food can make a person more beautiful, or less beautiful; it can improve or damage skin; it can make a person's body more attractive, help make hair and nails stronger; it can heal you or slowly kill you. There's also clean food and dirty food; if you eat clean, the message is that you are a clean and pure person; if you eat dirty, then the message is that you are dirty and impure. If you lose control in your life, you can find control in your food.

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THE MISSING INGREDIENT

THE BREAKFAST SANDWICH CONUNDRUM

I stole this image from BBC (★recipe), sue me

Over the first 9 months of the year, Americans bought $2.4B+ worth of breakfast sandwiches. It is a lot: it can be a new business and also a signal that something is changing. Maybe more commuting? Less time to make a proper breakfast at home? Any other ideas?

There’s also a problem concerning how healthy this might be: the majority of those breakfast rolls were the industrialized kind

Picture: BBC FOOD “TikTok breakfast sandwich”.

❍ OnlyPans
This is where Secret Breakfast picks juicy content from food creators

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RANDOM ACTS OF HUNGER

This is the space where I share some food (un)related stuff of my week

💣McDonald’s Mideast franchises offer side of politics with their burgers 🍳Caramelized Cream Eggs (★recipe) 🍳Andrew Zimmern Shared His Secret to the Perfect Crispy Fried Egg 🍰The 4 Ingredients Japanese Cheesecake (★recipe) 🎃53 Vegan Thanksgiving Ideas Recipes and No Jokes About Tofurkey (★recipes) 🍋Gluten Free Lemon Curd Cookies(★recipe) 🥯How to make bagels 💔When a Breakup Is an Act of Love 🙋🏽‍♀️What would a truly noma hot sauce look like? 💃🏼‘She Eats, She Pays, She Gets the F– Out’ Taylor Swift does not “need” to “go out to dinner”🤖Danny Meyer Claims AI and Human Hospitality Can Peacefully Coexist 🌶️Ancient Egyptians May Have Spiced Their Mummies 💬Group-Chat Culture Is Out of Control 🧮Find Your Birthday looking into the Pi  🎼Researchers analyzed 700-plus songs known to give people chills. Here’s the playlist 

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FOOD FOR LATER

The history of food creator Tieghan Gerard, who has built an empire on recipes and become an unwilling lightning rod for cultural appropriation, intellectual property, body shaming, privilege, and racism.

“The story of how one independent researcher conducted the largest-ever survey on fetishes, and what it has to teach us about sex, pleasure, and social science methodology”.

➤ Last week's most clicked link about the question to ask when someone is upset. And that's all for today, I hope I haven’t left you with some more broken links.