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International Breakfast Favourites
It’s thought to be the most important meal of the day, though in some cultures it’s just skipped over in favour of a cup of coffee and a heavy midday meal. In other countries, it’s a lavish affair, particularly on weekends and special occasions, and it’s now popular to push it back a few hours and feast on a brunch with friends at a much more sociable hour! Breakfast is a meal that varies throughout the world, and in each national case a traditional breakfast is held close to the heart of many – even if it’s just a cup of tea!
 Living with a French partner who, strangely enough, has acquired a taste for good old British baked beans, means that I have made even more “Traditional British Breakfasts” while living in France than I’d ever done during all my years in England. The thing is, he can only stomach a savoury meal after midday – so for us it’s the “Traditional British Breakfast” at lunch or dinnertime! The same goes for me with French breakfast though. I’d be content to eat the sweet cakes and breads at morning tea, washed down with a cup of black coffee, but for my mind they are more likely to be desserts rather than breakfasts! So I eat my daily muesli breakfast (and a rather substantial serving at that) then wonder why, at midday, I have no room to fit the entire range of courses in a French lunch. I really must figure that one out!
 Breakfast in Russia is one that’s quite appealing for me, as perhaps kasha echoes the porridge of my childhood. But what is served at Russian breakfasts? Not caviar, that’s for sure, but a salty dish is just as likely as a sweet serving of blini (crepes) or semolina kasha! Grenki (toasts), potato pancakes, or grechnaya kasha (buckwheat porridge) are also typical favourites in the early hours, yet grechnaya kasha can be eaten the whole day through and is delicious with mushrooms.
In many cultures throughout the world, breakfast is overlooked when it comes to Christmas time. In preparation for the impending feast, many opt for a small breakfast or skip it all together – even though the latter is against the advice of nutritionists. In Belgium and the north of France, however, the traditional Christmas food breakfast is a special sweet bread made with flour, eggs, milk, yeast, raisin and sugar, and called cougnou or cougnolle. In English, it’s called the Bread of Jesus, as the shape is supposed to resemble the baby Jesus. Given to children on Christmas and St. Martin’s Day, it’s a festive treat that’s ideal with a cup of hot chocolate.
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