The Body in the Gazebo
“I came across this quotation from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables during the dead of last winter, a very cold, long one. Visions not of sugarplums but of eggs Benedict, sour cream waffles, bagels and lox, streaky bacon, beignets, and café au lait immediately danced in my head. Breakfast is my favorite meal.
The word “breakfast,” from the Middle English, means just that—breaking the fast engendered by a night’s sleep. However, our ancestors all over the globe ate a much h...eartier breakfast than we normally do, as a necessity for the hard day’s physical labor that followed.
In the present day, those of us who eat at home do so lightly, and well over sixty percent of us grab ’n’ go—a doughnut and coffee or some other combination from a drive-thru before physically, but not psychologically, less strenuous work.
Even before Kellogg’s, grains have always played a prominent role in breakfast composition and remnants have been found at Neolithic sites.MoreLess
The word “breakfast,” from the Middle English, means just that—breaking the fast engendered by a night’s sleep. However, our ancestors all over the globe ate a much h...eartier breakfast than we normally do, as a necessity for the hard day’s physical labor that followed.
In the present day, those of us who eat at home do so lightly, and well over sixty percent of us grab ’n’ go—a doughnut and coffee or some other combination from a drive-thru before physically, but not psychologically, less strenuous work.
Even before Kellogg’s, grains have always played a prominent role in breakfast composition and remnants have been found at Neolithic sites.MoreLess
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