Welcome to Secret Breakfast / An exclusive newsletter, the best place to start your day with Tupperware laundry, the World’s Best Female Chef, and some tiny micro food

Hi there!

It occurs that mini versions of iconic snacks such as Trix, Twinkies, Ding Dongs, and Doritos are ready to invade the market.

Is this what happens after the Shrinkflation? Or is it just a consequence of the miniature-cooking trend on YouTube?

I don’t know about you, but I was off this already 8 years ago when I saw a guy wrapping tiny burritos for his cute hungry hamster.

Piero

Photograph by Nik, via Unsplash 

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THE BEST QUOTE

✦ Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You.

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THE MISSING INGREDIENT

¡QUE VIVA ELENA!

Mexican chef Elena Reygadas has been named The World’s Best Female Chef 2023, probably because I love the name of every single venue she runs: Rosetta, Lardo, Café Nin, Bella Aurora, and La Panadería de Rosetta.

Here you can read:

• a standard celebratory interview and her partial answer to the question: do we need a separate category for female chefs?

• a beautiful reportage by Carmen Morán Breña for El País (start with this).

• how to make her Vanilla-Sugar Conchas (★recipe). Good luck.

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THE BOOK

The honest yogurt and the forgotten ingredient you needed the most

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If you’re a city tool like me, you’ve heard about “whey” just when you had to buy some protein supplements to bulk up while training at the gym. This serum is extracted from straining homemade yogurt and can be a game-changer as Homa Dashtaki, founder of The White Moustache, writes in her new book. You’ll learn how to make (and spell correctly) yogurt - and whey - in 3 days, and how to involve them in some everyday recipes, like pancakes (★recipe), a Yazidi Cake (★recipe), a Yogurt Stew called Aash-E-Maast (★recipe).

Yogurt and Whey by Homa Dashtaki
→ Shortplot: 🥛 🍊 🍚 🥞

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

Shin Oh creates pixelated portrayals of hawker stalls & traditional businesses in Malaysia. This one is about Bak Kut Teh (★recipe):

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RANDOM ACTS OF HUNGER

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

👩🏻‍🍳Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2023: the list in pictures 💯Padma Lakshmi is one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People (her ex, Salman Rushdie, is on the list as well). Then you have also Native cuisine hero Sean Sherman (profiled by Padma herself) 🇨🇳How Chinese Food Won Over the World 🫗Water Can Help You with Thirst, but Can it Solve a Maze? 🥪46 Easy Picnic Food Ideas by Delish (★recipes) 🍽️From The Year I Ate New York newsletter: Where the Succession characters would really dine 🐟Why You Should Salt and Dry Your Salmon, in pictures 🥐When in Rome, the best things never change (nothing really ever changes there): late-night pastry bakeries 🍸Kendall Jenner having drinks with Hailey Bieber (video) 🤬Alison Roman falling off her chair at the wine and dessert table as we all did in life at least once 🧘🏻‍♀️A free 15 min daily stretch routine to help desk workers avoid aches and pains 🥠Fortune Cookie Writers May Be Losing Their Jobs to A.I. 🤡Don’t Make a Smartphone Face

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FOOD FOR LATER

The world is hooked on junk food: How big companies pull it off
Agnes Ersze / Salon

How the commercial entities create an environment that drives us toward unhealthy food choices? There are three ways: limiting your “de facto” choice; using marketing that creates demand; using political influence.

With Tupperware’s fate all but sealed tight
The Guardian

The Massachusetts firm making those iconic plastic containers isn’t feeling well. Here The Guardian’s readers share their favorite Tupperware memories. Tupperware train laundry is formidable.