Breakfast: a very important moment, where the day's mood is often set.
No jam left? It 's going to be a hellish day for all the colleagues.
No milk left for the cereal? Better for a wife to emigrate.
As for myself, I just need five minutes for a coffe and a cookie to munch,
but this simple wish of mine brutally clashes with the schedule I have to keep and the tasks of the hungry troops I have to wait on; to and from the kitchen and when you sit down it's time to go.
So I was wondering: will there be a breakfast kit? Not a tray to fill up at random, but a specially designed element!
A “breakfast box” ready to be set on the table and from which any kind of delicacies come out: cookies, jam, chocolates, toasts and the ever-present croissants. Even if I have recently found out that the very French “croissant” didn't originate in France, but it is bound to Budapest's destiny. In 1686 the city was besieged by the Turkish and many ferocious fights took place; the besiegers, wanting at last to conquer the city, decided to dig tunnels during the night to penetrate behind the defence lines, but the bakers, that worked at night, heard the noise and immediately alarmed the soldiers. As a reward, the city made a special cake to honor their courage; the bakers created a cake that could recall the crescent moon in the Ottoman flag, “croissant”exactly!
Apart from the flag, for the breakfast box there are plenty of proposals!
You might propose the use of a picnic basket; very elegant but, normally, of the size of a transoceanic container and difficult to park in a kitchen, not to mention that as a picnic purist I should get a lawn to eat my lavish meal on; maybe a lawn table like the one designed by Haiko Cornelissen!
No jam left? It 's going to be a hellish day for all the colleagues.
No milk left for the cereal? Better for a wife to emigrate.
As for myself, I just need five minutes for a coffe and a cookie to munch,
but this simple wish of mine brutally clashes with the schedule I have to keep and the tasks of the hungry troops I have to wait on; to and from the kitchen and when you sit down it's time to go.
So I was wondering: will there be a breakfast kit? Not a tray to fill up at random, but a specially designed element!
A “breakfast box” ready to be set on the table and from which any kind of delicacies come out: cookies, jam, chocolates, toasts and the ever-present croissants. Even if I have recently found out that the very French “croissant” didn't originate in France, but it is bound to Budapest's destiny. In 1686 the city was besieged by the Turkish and many ferocious fights took place; the besiegers, wanting at last to conquer the city, decided to dig tunnels during the night to penetrate behind the defence lines, but the bakers, that worked at night, heard the noise and immediately alarmed the soldiers. As a reward, the city made a special cake to honor their courage; the bakers created a cake that could recall the crescent moon in the Ottoman flag, “croissant”exactly!
Apart from the flag, for the breakfast box there are plenty of proposals!
You might propose the use of a picnic basket; very elegant but, normally, of the size of a transoceanic container and difficult to park in a kitchen, not to mention that as a picnic purist I should get a lawn to eat my lavish meal on; maybe a lawn table like the one designed by Haiko Cornelissen!
A romantic and easily applicable idea: a wicker basket. You can choose an incredible quantity of baskets and couple them with Provençal style cases of any shape and color! Without going too far: “maison du monde” has beautiful kitchen elements!!!
An example of the “breakfast box” is proposed by Jenny Steffens in her blog even as a gift for a relaxed moment!
My personal solution is a very colorful basket, to which you can add various elements, colored and decorated, to be filled up with cookies, cereals and morning tidbits! For the boxes I draw my inspiration from the Nordic tradition; on the website http://scandinaviandesigncenter.com you can find many interesting ideas, but I discovered a few rarities, including the basket, on www.madeindesign.it.
For those that are in a hurry, really in a great hurry, and can't eat at home, there's a bike tray. But however spectacular it might be, it's plain that at the first bend you would drop all the cookies, and at the second pothole all the coffee! Not practical but 100% design.
Enjoy your breakfast!
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