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...Missed breakfast again today? No problem. Now you can savor the morning meal at night in the most elegant of settings - a gourmet restaurant. From Northern California's wine country to the dunes of Cape Cod, three-star chefs have begun whipping up surprising combinations like waffles with caviar, eggs benedict with truffles, and even French toast with chevre, and serving them well after dark. Long a staple of roadside diners and harried family cooks with no time to bake a lasagna, breakfast for dinner appeals to our cravings for soft, warm comfort foods that aren't heavy but still...
...Serving breakfast for dinner appeals to discerning customers and chefs alike. "When you look at most breakfast foods, they taste pretty darn good," says, John Nihoff, a professor of gastronomy at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., who points to the growing interest in gourmet variations on breakfast stalwarts, such as the new Iberico ham from Spain, which comes from pigs that are fed only acorns. Meanwhile, more chefs are discovering that serving breakfast foods after noon doesn't have to mean going downscale. "Anyone can serve breakfast food at dinner. If I slapped French toast...
...Perhaps most important, many people find a good breakfast to be satisfying for the soul as well as the stomach. "Breakfast has a better image than any other meal," says Leon Rappoport, who surveyed hundreds of diners on their feelings about food for his 2003 book How We Eat: Appetite, Culture and the Psychology of Food. He says that people generally associate the morning meal with family, coziness, and casualness, whereas dinner feels formal, heavy and even sad, particularly among young men. Thomas Keller, chef and owner of French Laundry in Yountville, Calif. and Per Se in New York City...
Merve Yesilada, 22, who is working on a soon-to-open gallery and design store, Haaz, with interiors by Sami Hayek (brother of Hollywood's Salma) was having breakfast at the laid-back Assk café, right on the waterfront, with her friend Lerna Tutunciyan, 29, who works as a production assistant. Talk turned to head scarves, a particularly thorny issue given Turkish history. (While the traditional male Islamic headgear, the fez, was banned by law in 1925, the head scarf had simply fallen out of use.) Yesilada, who loves to mix Marc Jacobs and Gucci with TopShop pieces, thinks that...
...militia was formed in Iran during the Saddam era, and it is known to take guidance (and, some of its critics allege, perhaps even its orders) from Tehran. U.S. officials have been pressing the Iraqi government to disarm such militias. The President brought up that suggestion at his breakfast meeting with al-Maliki in Jordan, only to be swiftly rebuffed. And that's exactly the reaction Bush is likely to have gotten from al-Hakim...