THE BREAKFAST BOOK

Good morning:)

I love a good breakfast, especially on the weekends when I have the time to make it a little better, than during the busy week, and I have the weekend in less than 8 hours…. yeah!

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so the clever heads say!

Breakfast varies greatly from family to family and region to region, even while individuals tend to eat the same thing every day. While Americans traditionally like to start the day with eggs, cereal and doughnuts, the Japanese eat rice and miso soup, and the Yoruba enjoy maize porridge and beans. For breakfast I like to drink a good big cafe latte with soya or nut-milk, fresh juice or a homemade smoothie and I like to enjoy it with gluten-free homebaked bread, eggs, bacon or ham, a some fresh fruit and vegetables and different kinds of cheese. Great now in the time of this breakfast writing I get quite hungry, and I’ve even just eaten my busy in the morning breakfast consisting of Quark with fruit, almonds and gluten free oats!

But while I prefer cafe latte with my eggs and bacon while living in Spain, many of the real Spanish people enjoy hot chocolate with churros for breakfast.

Nobody knows how the morning meal came to be. But I know I love a good filling breakfast meal and I think this Breakfast Book is going to live in my bookcase very soon.

The Breakfast Book collects stories of breakfast around the world in an attempt to pin down the mottled history of eating in the morning. In search of what people have thought and written about breakfast – and tasted – Andrew Dalby traces the meal’s origins back to the Neolithic revolution. He follows the trail from the ancient Near East and classical Greece to modern Europe and across the globe, rediscovering stories of breakfast in 3,000 years of fiction, memoirs and art. Using a multitude of entertaining breakfast facts, anecdotes and images, he reveals why breakfast is so often the backdrop for unexpected meetings, why so many people eat breakfast out, and why this often silent meal is also so reassuring. Oh I love to eat out, but then I combine two in one and do a Brunch instead, here for example www.federalcafe.es

Featuring a selection of historic and contemporary breakfast recipes from around the world, The Breakfast Book is the first history of this inimitable meal and will make an ideal morning companion to kedgeree, croissants and noodle soup alike.

If you also think this sounds like a good book, you can buy it right here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Breakfast-Book-Andrew-Dalby/dp/1780230869