Portland by Heather Arndt Anderson6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() In the medieval era, it was understood that the only people who needed to eat breakfast were children, the elderly and infirm, or worse: the laboring poor.ĮB: What was the importance of the industrial revolution in changing the way we ate-and understood-breakfast? He attributed the meal to praepropere, or “eating too soon.” It was assumed that if one needed to eat breakfast, one likely had other lusty appetites as well. ![]() ![]() HA: Breakfast had been attached to a form of gluttony identified by the 13th-century Dominican priest Thomas Aquinas. Obviously, Breakfast is the most important meal so it came first.ĮB: In you book you mention that breakfast was stigmatized for quite some time. ![]() The series includes the Big Three (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner), but will also feature Picnic, Brunch and Barbecue. HA: It is exactly what it sounds like: a series of single-topic books about the meals. You can follow her blog at .ĮB: Your book is part of the “meals series” by Alta Mira Press. Her recipes have been published in the cookbook One Big Table: 600 Recipes from the Nation’s Best Home Cooks, Farmers, Fishermen, Pit-Masters, and Chefs, and she is a contributing writer to the magazines The Farmer General and Remedy Quarterly. Portland-based Heather Arndt Anderson is the author of Breakfast: A History (Baltimore: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy, 2013) and wrote the Pacific Northwest chapter in the 4-volume Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2011). ![]()
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