I have always favored breakfast. And, I love to eat breakfast food for lunch and dinner, too.
I think this has been true since childhood when my mother served me scrambled eggs and then later taught me how to scramble my own. One of her little tricks was to add a quarter teaspoon of sugar, pancake syrup, or vanilla extract to the scrambled batter. Or, as my wife and her parents later insisted: add a dollop of mayonnaise.
One of the great surprises of nutrition research as far as I'm concerned is the conclusion that eggs are good for us. This ranks second or third only to those nutritionists' assertions that coffee is beneficial in restricted amounts as is dark chocolate.
As a younger writer I often ate breakfast at a restaurant counter and finished my coffee and toast while writing in my journal. In college, my dormitory mates and I often drove across the river to the next city for all-night breakfast served at a local diner. I can remember at that time thinking my avocation in life might be to become a short-order cook at a diner.
Restaurants such as Ihop, Dennys (which was a favorite when my family lived in Tokyo), Waffle House (despite the jokes it engenders, it makes the best home fries--and there are three of them within a mile of our house in Georgia**), Perkins, Sonic, Bob Evans (which much too late in life I learned was my late older brother's favorite eating place--well, after all, Mom probably taught him to scramble eggs, too) and Cracker Barrel all specialize in serving breakfast all day.
A development in the restaurant world is the growing popularity of gourmet breakfast shops. A recent article by list-maker Malika Harricharan* rates the ten best breakfast shops in Atlanta; I'm certain there's a similar list provided for a major city near you.
I'm told that sometime before the end of this year (2015) McDonald's will be serving breakfast all day in many locations. About time, is all I can say.
Whether eggs are served with ham, bacon, sausage, grits, fries, or even fish, they always comfort and enrich me.
And, be at ease, my friends. Breakfast was apparently important in the life of Jesus.
The gospel of John tells us that the resurrected Jesus instructed the disciples who were fishing offshore to heave their nets to the other side, and moments later as his followers with their new huge catch moved ashore toward the fire he had built on the beach, Jesus invites them with the words: "Come and have breakfast."***
*http://www.10best.com/destinations/georgia/atlanta/restaurants/breakfast/
**After his victory in the 2014 Masters Golf Tournament, golfer and big-tipper Bubba Watson apparently treated his family and staff to a meal at Waffle House (as per waitress at restaurant).
*** (John 21:12).
