Welcome to Secret Breakfast / An exclusive newsletter, crunchy like a bedtime snack and plunging at full speed like a beaver thrown down a rabbit hole

Hi there!

Today’s issue is a little bit late, because of the - how can we call it? - hangover.

We live in an unbelievable time: you can drink a marvelous Champagne made of 131 different wines from 20 vintages, basically an ice-cold-sparkling-grape-mole, but then you have to cope with it.

And getting older makes those things harder, as clearly stated by the latest wobbly Indiana Jones movie…

Have a great week!

Piero

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THE BEST QUOTE

✦ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia.

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THE MISSING INGREDIENT

THE HOUR OF BEDTIME SNACKS

It’s time for bedtime snacks, probably the food that’s the guilty responsible for your my belly.

In this case, we’re not talking about tacos, ice cream, Nutella, and Big Macs at 1 AM, but businesses are truly looking to lure bedtime snackers with better-for-you, sleep-promoting treats.

You can look around the Internet and find some ideas you can make at home:

• 11 Calming Bedtime Snacks to Help You Fall Asleep

• 15 Quick and Healthy Bedtime Snacks for Kids

• Midnight Snacks Aren't Your Sleep's Enemy. Here's How To Do It Right

• What Are the Best Bedtime Snacks for People With Diabetes

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THE BOOK

The Worst Room in the House

★★1/2

“The kitchen is the worst room in the house if you are disabled”, says Disabled Kitchen and Garden’s Jules Sherred. I think we need a guide for disabled and neurodivergent home cooks (as we need one for non-100% self-sufficient older parents). This one goes from organizing tips to recipes like butter chicken, Thai squash soup, and lemon pound cake.

Crip Up The Kitchen by Jules Sherred
→ Shortplot: 🍲 🍽 🍋 🍗

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RANDOM ACTS OF HUNGER

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

🎆Happy 4th of July with this cheese-topped apple pie 🍠Sweet potatoes salsa salad looks like the only salad I could eat right now (★recipe) 🐻Recipes from and Inspired by 'The Bear', nothing to add here (★recipes) 🎥BTW, Why Does the Food on ‘The Bear’ Look So Damn Good? 🐖Alison Roman’s ribs (★recipe) 🐗The Buffet Is Back in the U.S. 🤳🏻Why influencers love a free trip — even a controversial one from Shein 🍷During the Pandemic we drank a lot, now there’s too much wine 🥐Stephan Ango’s Pillowy Swedish cinnamon rolls using the tangzhong technique (★recipe) 🍷When you have dinner with wine experts, they all point to a bottle of San Leonardo 2018

🎺Look, mama, Sfoglia newsletter by Francesca Romana De Bernardino is writing about Secret Breakfast. Italian readers can take a deep dive, English readers just allow me to share this blurb I’m so thankful for:

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FOOD FOR LATER

Welcome Aboard the Aquidaban, the Floating Jungle Supermarket
Jack Nicas and María Magdalena Arréllaga / The New York Times

“The Aquidaban is loud and filthy. The food suspect. The crew grumpy. The mosquitoes ravenous. And by day four, the air is thick with the smells of perishing produce, livestock and ranch hands returning from months in the bush”. My kind of reportage, from Paraguay.

The secret movement bringing Europe’s wildlife back from the brink
Isobel Cockerell / Coda

Seed bombing is for amateurs. “Beaver bombing” is the hardcore move to release ecosystem engineers into the environment and rewild the world.

➤ Last week's most clicked link was NO SURPRISE: it was the one about the 36 hours in Paris. And that's all for today.