Starting the Day

Throughout our lives, from the time we are young children, we are told, and “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.”   “Be sure to eat a good breakfast every day.”  But what is a good breakfast?

Bacon and eggs?  Coffee and a croissant?  Cheese, ham and bread?  Porridge and pickled vegetables?

A recent article by InterNations, (http://www.internations.org/) a community for expats around the world published an article on just this topic.  Titled “Forget Bacon:  Breakfast Abroad”

http://www.internations.org/magazine/forget-bacon-breakfast-abroad-17467?utm_source=newsletter_mails&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2_20150108&utm_content=4

 The writer pointed out what many of us know well – that for the first meal of the day we often prefer something familiar.  It’s not the time we’re most eager to explore the local cuisine in a new place. 

If coffee is our drink we hope to find it in a familiar form.  Even though you might find interesting local coffee in Turkey, Ethiopia or Mexico (with a bit o cinnamon) often North American travelers turn to Starbuck’s, if ones available, for that familiar taste.

As I’m about to head to a trip that will take me to Paris, Florence, Rome and London my thoughts about food are more focused on dinner than breakfast.  But I will share that in Paris I love crepes for breakfast and that I am most looking forward to starting each day in Rome with the crusty, air filled rolls I can only find in there.

Sometime its’ good to explore a little even to start the day.  Are you a strict traditionalist or an explorer first thing in the morning?