Food Noise, Intuitive Eating and House Swapping 🏡

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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / An exclusive newsletter, the best place to start your day with food noise, wrong resolutions, and green honey

A flipped funhouse. No ammonium chloride around.

Hi there!

I hope you had a stellar start to the year and said something smart when your significant other asked for your 2024 resolutions in front of your closest friends and relatives.

Me, I like dedicating every year to learning something new about something. There was the Year of the Fermentation (2018), the Mahler Symphonies Year (2020, sabotaged by Covid-19), and this 2024 that started as the Year of the Bourgogne, but will probably pivot to something else because I’m an Aries and Mercury’s retrograde this year (and budget cuts will be trending in the following months too).

You’ll probably ask me if I’m in the States or something since it’s Wednesday in Europe and Secret Breakfast publishing day is supposed to be Tuesday.

Hey, I’m in the middle of nowhere, sieged by my family, after a week I’ve been cooking for 7 to 14 people per day, four times a day: allow me a break.

Piero

PS: when working on resolutions, remember that the goal is not to run a Michelin-star restaurant at the end of 2024, the goal is to take time for cooking every week.

PPS: The Book and The Missing Ingredient sections will come back next week.

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THE BEST QUOTE

✦ Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars. And home is where the kitchen is.

❍ 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

💆🏼‍♀️How to Recover When Socializing Has Totally Drained Your Battery 🇰🇷Mexican Seoul’s kimchi Bloody Mary (★recipe) 🚿One Trend I Totally Missed: Reviewing Food While Taking a Shower 👴🏻Grandpa-core is becoming a thing 🐔2024 Food and Drink Trends Are All About Ranch, Robots, and Rooster Pasta 🐝Wait, Bees Can Make Green Honey? (+51 other things Jason Kotte has learned last year) 👌🏻Eater’s worked so well recently: 38 Essential Rome Restaurants + The Globetrotter’s Guide to Vegan Restaurants + The Best Recipes Eater Editors Made This Year (★recipes) 🎒Gig tripping and home swapping will be cool in 2024 🧠A Quick Guide to Intuitive Eating

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FOOD FOR LATER

What if ‘Food Noise’ Is Just … Hunger?
Kate Manne / The New York Times

The concept of "food noise" has gained popularity on social media, referring to the experience of thinking about food, longing for it, and planning meals. But hunger, appetite, and cravings should be treated as problems to be solved while accepting our natural drives.

Secrets of the Michelin Man
Adam Hay-Nicholls / AirMail

Gwendal Poullennec, the 44-year-old international director of the Michelin Guide, is still the most influential person in the food world. And now the Guide is expanding to hotels. Will it be a good move?

➤ Last week's most clicked link was 40 questions to ask yourself every year. And that's all for today.