Fast Broken

Posted on December 4, 2007

I have been eating breakfast again—at least on those mornings when I wake up in Stratford: not because I’m hungry—far from it—but because I’m staying at The Three Houses, an extremely comfortable and beautifully decorated B&B owned by David Lester. His breakfasts are the best I have had in many a year. They begin with a goblet of his very crisp and holy granola mixed with sliced banana and apple, pear and fresh berries (I have no idea where he finds such ripe, juicy raspberries with the wind-driven snow drifting in the corners of his garden). There is coffee and freshly squeezed orange juice, toast or some thick buttered slices of the wickedly heavy, moist zucchini bread that he bakes. Home-made jam or marmalade can be applied (I choose the marmalade because Lester uses Seville oranges and it’s delectably bitter). Then there is the egg moment—maybe scrambled eggs tossed with croutons and some of Ruth Klahsen’s soft white goat cheese, or an omelette folded over mushrooms and fines herbs. Scrumptious. And, because the world is small, it turns out that my host is close friends with half a dozen people I know on Corfu, so there’s plenty to talk about.

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