There are very few things this New Yorker loves as much as Sunday brunch. You can sleep until noon and still get eggs anywhere in the city, alcohol is often included with the meal, and Sunday is the one day a week you get the single woman’s sports pages: the New York Times wedding section.
~Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
I think brunch may be my favourite meal. I love the civilized time of day that it’s served, I love that Champagne is its official drink, I love the tantalizingly glorious mixture of dishes that are traditional brunch fare, and I love that I can almost always find live jazz as brunch’s faithful companion. There’s only one problem with brunch…I save it for special occasions.
I don’t have brunch every week, or even every month. I don’t revel in a leisurely brunch at home on a Saturday with jazz playing in the background. I don’t invite a few special friends over for brunch on a public holiday, and I don’t have brunch just simply because. I save brunch for Mother’s Day, Christmas morning, vacations, or a girlfriend’s birthday celebration. Why is that? Why can’t there be more special occasions made, rather than waiting for them to be happen? Luckily, this problem can be solved. I’ve been looking for a New Year’s resolution that I can get passionate about, and this might just be it.
Oh, I know what you’re thinking, and you’d be correct in thinking that there are much more weighty items that could be on my New Year’s resolution list, but don’t I deserve just one little resolution that’s simple, lovely and that I’ll look forward to keeping? Won’t a happier me be more able to tackle the heavier changes I need to make in my life in 2012? Won’t enjoying brunch a bit more often add just the right amount of sparkle to those sometimes rather dull weeks? No, I think it’s just the right thing to add in to my life, whilst I’m whittling away all those things that need to be taken out. As a matter of fact, rather than making resolutions about all the things I need to STOP doing, perhaps I’ll start making resolutions about all the things I want to begin doing. Eventually, maybe I’ll be so busy doing all of the things I love, and that make me happy, I just won’t be able to find the time to do any of the things that I shouldn’t, and I’ll have a life I simply adore. A life that’s full of everything I enjoy, dream about, and care for.
That’s me taken care of then. A New Year’s brunch resolution. I like it.
eggs benedict at Bar Tartine, San Francisco
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