The Domestic Goddess 👱🏻‍♀️

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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / An exclusive newsletter, the best place to start your day with an 81 yo Playboy cover girl, vegan Harissa meatballs, and a few Thanksgiving treats

Hi there!

One of us is seeing a nutritionist today. And I don’t think it’s you.

If you’ve been living an unwanted sedentary lifestyle, if your bloodwork s*ck and your metabolism left you right after your 40th birthday, you know what I’m talking about.

Wish me luck.

I bet you’ll get more healthy recipes in the coming issues. Or more Matty Matheson comfort food stuff.

Piero

Picture: Plate VI, 2022. By Lia Darjes/Robert Morat Gallery

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Ina Garten, Be Ready When the Luck Happens. When I have people over I never follow that suggestion, my bad.

“Martha Stewart celebrates her landmark 100th book with an intimate collection of 100 treasured recipes”. I’m much more of a Nigella guy but hail the Queen (and read on).

Martha: The Cookbook by Martha Stewart
Shortplot: 🍏 👱🏻‍♀️ 🎂 👑

MARTHA, THE DOMESTIC GODDESS

Let’s talk more about Martha Stewart. She popularized the concept of "domestic goddess" and elevated everyday cooking into an art form. Her cookbooks (100, you’re served), TV shows, and magazines provided accessible recipes and techniques, inspiring home cooks to experiment and create. She also inspired Eater people with her hacks. She was, in fact, the mother of the contemporary influencers.

The best part is Stewart's story is not without controversy. She faced legal troubles, including an insider trading scandal that led to imprisonment. I mean: jail!

If prison and recipes and smiles are not enough, you should know she worked 8 years as a stockbroker, she became America’s first self-made female billionaire and - hey - her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover in 2023, with which she made history as the oldest cover star at age 81, got 100 billion impressions.

Now you can have her as a Christmas Elf-on-the-Shelf, or as a Netflix star saying things like: “Those prosecutors should have been put in a Cuisinart turned on high”.

She’s fire.

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

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Take a break, and read about this Japanese institution. “Fundamentally, kissas are indie sole-proprietor shops”. It’s the opposite of the “condition of contemporary big-boxification of the world. Chain drug stores, chain supermarkets, chain fast-fashion outlets, chain coffee shops, chain diners — all of these gut the possibility for depth of relationship on both sides: for customers and owners alike”.

Matty Matheson Is Not an Accident
Adam Platt / Grub Street

From burger tutorials to The Bear, the internet’s favorite chef has been all in this whole time.

Last week's most clicked link was the Palestinian Nutella. And that's all for today.