Welcome to Secret Breakfast / An exclusive newsletter, the best place to start your day with problems, powdered buttermilk and Taiwanese pork mooncakes

Hi there!

I’ve been traveling back and forth for about 1200 km in the last 20 hours, and in a couple of hours it will be morning again and I’ll be taking off for a very secret place… Ok, for Paris.

If I’m lucky enough, next week I’ll be sharing with you two things: the details of this little adventure and the idea I had for the next New Year’s project.

I know, I told you a lot and told you nothing. Skip this, and find below something good to read or cook.

This Secret Breakfast issue is a little shorter than usual, but you’ll definitely find some fun.

Piero

© Mohammad Rakibul Hasan,Bangladesh. Four fishing families living on an island adjacent to the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh brought their remaining food supplies to the table. Due to climate change the river is constantly eroding the landscape and cyclones hit yearly.

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THE BEST QUOTE

✦ Alfred A. Montapert. Canned quote, good as canned beans: sometimes they’re good enough and can save you time.

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THE BOOK

A Love Letter to Taiwan

★★★★☆

«My strong suit is the act of preservation and interviewing and reporting». Clarissa Wei (and Ivy Chen) made a book that’s part recipes, part history, part stories, part great pictures. In Taiwan, Food Is Political and this book is a good way to know better about it. Try Sweet and Sour Pineapple Prawns (★recipe), this Braised Minced Pork Belly (★recipe), and the amazing looking Mung Bean Pork Mooncake (★recipe)

Made in Taiwan by Clarissa Wei and Ivy Chen
→ Shortplot: 🍻 🍜 🥘 🥬

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RANDOM ACTS OF HUNGER

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

🗝️The World’s Best Hotel is in Italy 👨🏻‍🍳Wylie Dufresne Offers His Recipe for Becoming a Chef 🌮You Only Need One Pan to Make Migas Like Veracruz All (★recipe) 🥛Keep Powdered Buttermilk in Your Pantry (I keep powdered coconut milk) 👩🏻‍🍳Meet the 2023 Food & Wine Best New Chefs 🇺🇸The 50 Restaurant List 🍕Cornmeal Skillet Sourdough Pizza (★recipe) 🥪The Best Sandwich in Every U.S. State 🌴Science may have found a way to replace palm oil ☀️ ‘I’ve Been a Longevity Nutritionist for 30 Years, and These Are the Top 4 Foods I Tell My Clients To Eat Every Day’ 🧮 How to Make a Brain-Dump Meal Plan 🧋Coke Launched a New Drink That’s Supposed to Taste Like the Year 3000 🫦Yogurt may be the next go-to garlic breath remedy 👩🏼‍🎤Dua Lipa tries Michelin-starred French food with Hélène Darroze 🥔Invite some friends over and fry croquetas (★recipe)

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FOOD FOR LATER

This Is the Menu? 
Rafael Tonon / Punch

“With faux pharmaceuticals, Rubik’s cubes, invisible ink, and other interactive elements, modern bar menus are becoming as high-concept as the cocktails they list”.

We are not supposed to live like this 
Erin Remblance / Protecting the Future

Our daily reminder that we were not meant to die in a cubicle, stay indoors all the time, and write newsletters at night. Just joking, but read it. Then go out.

➤ Last week's most clicked link was the one about the 20 best autumn recipes. And that's all for today.