Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wolf having coffee with breakfast.October 1974 National Archives Identifier: 412-DA-15851 Extra Special KDB and I have coffee with breakfast every morning. It looks nothing like this moment that Mr. and Mrs. Wolf are sharing. I have the luxury of taking early morning meetings in my underwear by teleconference with replicants three to twelve time zones away. She has to fly out the door to report to real-life skin jobs. I cook. We eat. I brew. We drink. I’ve been on a diet for over a year now in which I eat nearly the same breakfast each morning: 1 egg .5 cup of egg whites .5 cup of pinto or great northern beans (or lots of chard during the summer) Extra Special KDB gives a thumbs up to all that protein, so she has the same for breakfast. For coffee, it’s usually beans from Extracto or Ristretto, freshly ground and made in a Chemex. Her coffee goes in a travel mug with soy cream. My coffee goes in an enameled mug with heavy cream. Our 21st Century breakfast routine is a little frenetic. She’s grabbing bites of breakfast while going through her bathroom/wardrobe routine, frequently standing while she eats. I’m usually checking emails from co-workers and seeing what meeting invites have come in while I was asleep. We chat, and we’re connected, but it’s got an energy we’d both like to dump. So, we’ve just decided that it’s time to commit to one leisurely breakfast each week. It only requires a few minutes of planning the night before and rising fifteen minutes earlier than we normally do. We’re not sure which day, but we’d both like this idea. Now, if we can only get this amber light in our breakfast nook and a photographer to capture our coffee and breakfast moments… High-res

Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wolf having coffee with breakfast.
October 1974
National Archives Identifier: 412-DA-15851

Extra Special KDB and I have coffee with breakfast every morning. It looks nothing like this moment that Mr. and Mrs. Wolf are sharing. I have the luxury of taking early morning meetings in my underwear by teleconference with replicants three to twelve time zones away. She has to fly out the door to report to real-life skin jobs.

I cook. We eat.

I brew. We drink.

I’ve been on a diet for over a year now in which I eat nearly the same breakfast each morning:

  • 1 egg
  • .5 cup of egg whites
  • .5 cup of pinto or great northern beans (or lots of chard during the summer)

Extra Special KDB gives a thumbs up to all that protein, so she has the same for breakfast. For coffee, it’s usually beans from Extracto or Ristretto, freshly ground and made in a Chemex.

Her coffee goes in a travel mug with soy cream.

My coffee goes in an enameled mug with heavy cream.

Our 21st Century breakfast routine is a little frenetic. She’s grabbing bites of breakfast while going through her bathroom/wardrobe routine, frequently standing while she eats. I’m usually checking emails from co-workers and seeing what meeting invites have come in while I was asleep. We chat, and we’re connected, but it’s got an energy we’d both like to dump.

So, we’ve just decided that it’s time to commit to one leisurely breakfast each week. It only requires a few minutes of planning the night before and rising fifteen minutes earlier than we normally do. We’re not sure which day, but we’d both like this idea.

Now, if we can only get this amber light in our breakfast nook and a photographer to capture our coffee and breakfast moments…