Breakfast The Most Important Book about the Best Meal of the Day by the Editors of Extra Crispy with a foreword by Hugh Acheson

Breakfast is the most amazing moment of the day, when substantially you can also eat a calf and your metabolism permit you to burn most of  calories.
If in the past it was a special moment of the day, where, if not everyone in the family, a lot of members spent all together breakfast-time, at the moment it's a quick passage of the day where there is not anymore any kind of personal touch, in most cases. People don't speak anymore, and sometimes breakfast means just a coffee drunk quickly, without any particular attention or cares.
But...
Breakfast is strictly connected with love, caring, friendship because it begins with the day; and a new day means love and a new, fresh, happy, optimistic start; that's why a good breakfast is also important for all the family-members. Are you single and you live alone? Good: it should be important for you as well. A moment for cuddle your soul passing through your body.

I remember my dad's breakfast. An omelette with bacon; or bacon with cheese, some honey or jam, he was a jam-addicted and a good glass of red wine or two. A robust breakfast.

That's why I fall fascinated by Breakfast The Most Important Book about the Best Meal of the Day by the Editors of Extra Crispy with a foreword by Hugh Acheson by Oxmoor House.

This cook book will be released on Oct.23 and with it, forget your coffee.
The authors want to let you fall in love again for breakfast, so that you will bake, you will prepare delicious dishes for your loved ones, because it's this one, the most precious moment of the day and the one, where, paradoxically we can be more indulgent with ourselves.
Not only: food is one of the strongest vehicle for arriving to the heart of people.

This book is plenty of essays, as the one of the history of breakfast, starting from Romans; Romans didn't joke, they ate a lot, for arriving at our times, when we discover as King of our tables: eggs.

You will learn how how to cook eggs perfectly, but if you prefer french toast, or, for not upsetting too much our french friends, their pain perdu, a series of explanations will permit you to obtain the best of the best.

Breakfast will also explain you how to prepare the best bread, using  banana or other fruits.
Do you find difficult to prepare crispy potatoes every time? Don't worry: your problems are sorted out by the authors of this cook book and their guidelines.
Jam: you know it's one of the fundamentals of breakfast. Yes, there are some fundamentals in breakfast as well.
Maybe you don't tend to eat it, but some in your family do. It's better, when possible, if you live in a countryside, if you can go in a countryside or if you have friends with the desire of sharing fruits with you, to make some jam.

I also found interesting the chapter dedicated to granola: wonderful snacks that you make saving money;  another delicious homemade recipe is also the one of Breakfast Cookies with sunflower seed butter!

A chapter of this yummy cook book is dedicated to coffee and other interesting beverages, so while you will discover everything about coffee, best brands, differences, why not start the reading sipping a delicious London Fog?

If you enjoy smoothies, a fresh and healthy start in the morning with fruits and veggies you love the most, you will be satisfied, like also if you enjoy diversified other drinks.

Every place in the USA have a different kind of breakfast in particular when meats is involved.
Pennsylvania love a recipe with the pig's heart and liver, strong people they go right to the point! :-) but the authors propose also an Arabian pastry, the M'hancha.

You love brioche? Follow the step of Breakfast and you'll obtain the best ones; also if you search for a muffin's recipe.
Interesting the main differences between baking soda and baking powder, why they're different and their roles in various dishes.

If you are scared by the gingerbread house, you know Christmas is close, follow the recipe suggested here and you will obtain a wonderful realization.

If you adore cinnamon as I do, there are many tantalizing recipes.

For someone more close to a lunch or a brunch than breakfast, we eat carbonara for lunch, I propose you, back to eggs, Texas red chili and eggs or a carbonara with delicious noodles and an exotic persian Kuku Sabzi.
Are you in love for sweet potatoes as I am? You can't miss the chance of baking this baked oatmeal.
Oh: did I mention great recipes for pancakes?

Beautiful cover, electrifying, in this moment of the year where days are shortest, this cook book a splash in the sunniest color existing in this world and in the optimism: beautiful pictures, illustrations, chapters.
Six in total, essays explain, clarify, they speak of old and new times, old and new breakfasts, different customs, dishes, and there are pages where these bakers will teach you how to become the perfect baker.
Can you ask for more?


Highly recommended.

I thank Meredith and Oxmoor House for the physical copy of this book.


Anna Maria Polidori