Cool Lunchboxes, Electric Pickles, and Bone Marrow Cakes 🎂

Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start thinking that fridges are spaceships, and cheese is where land, animals and culture meetHi there! At first, this issue is a random mess, as usual. But it’s also a reflection on the senses. That may sound extreme, but pleasure, discomfort, and even lunch boxes are all about the senses.Hope you enjoy it!Piero✹Anne Carson, the freshest Nobel Prize in Literature, cut and pasted from The Glass Essay. I suggest you take your time to read that with no interruptions (somehow dificult if you're reading this on the smartphone, but you get me). Where the feed ends and the baking beginsPhotography by Nacho Alegre for WSJ MagazineSunday night. A French pastry chef folds dough in slow motion. Forty seconds. Your shoulders drop. You feel almost fed. You save the video and keep scrolling.You will never bake that pie. And nothing felt missing.That is the point of [this newsletter! and] a new book by Patricia Nilsson. The Financial Times journalist…