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| Photo from Dietician Without Borders |
We hear it over and over again, that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When we are concerned about our figure, our weight, we tend to skip breakfast and get on with our day. But for children who need the fuel to get through school and are stricken by poverty, skipping breakfast may not be such a wise choice. In fact, many children in Africa face overwhelming poverty, putting their ambitions on a very elusive pedestal.
Send A Cow UK’s project is to
introduce this book and highlighting breakfast choices of historical and iconic
figures such as Florence Nightingale, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma
Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Albert Einstein.
We know a lot of these leaders in terms of their accomplishments in leadership, industries, humanitarian causes and science. The Most Important Meals Of Their Lives gives an idea of what these greats had for their breakfasts.
The book also features recipes and other interesting facts like how astronauts followed strict lightweight diets in portions like bacon squares and cookie sugar cubes.
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| Alber Einstein: Fried eggs and honey, crisp rolls and decaffeinated coffee |
What would have happened if Albert Einstein did not have breakfast when he first formulated the Theory Of Relativity? Did you know that he stuck to a vegetarian diet? The Great Eats also reveals that he had a personal invention that was positioned on his table to decaffeinate his coffee.
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| Christopher Columbus: Hardtack and legumes stew |
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| Jane Austen: pound cake, tea, cocoa and toast |
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| Thomas Edison: Apple dumplings |
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| Winston Churchill: poached egg, cold meat, toast and grapefruit |
What I Learned From the Book
I particularly like pancakes. They are my personal comfort food and I like them lathered with butter, so that means the more butter, the better, and I top it off my maple syrup. It turns out, "Honest Abe" Abraham Lincoln could gobble up Kentucky corn cakes faster than anyone can make them, and the brave Rosa Parks also adored featherlite pancakes. My guess is that she could have had it on the day she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus.
Other notable figures in the book are Florence Nightingale, William Shakespeare, Mother Teresa, First Men on the Moon, Barack Obama, Cleopatra, Charles Darwin, Amelia Earhart, Sigmund Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela.
Who Would Enjoy This Book
This is a great library addition for foodies, historians, chefs in the making, bookworms, those looking for new breakfast recipes to try or anyone who is a fan of these historical icons. As for me, I consider myself lucky to have an e-book copy of this book and have had a glimpse of the breakfasts of these great leaders.
About Send A Cow UK
Send A Cow UK follows research
highlighting undernourished children in Rwanda and Uganda. These youngsters
struggle with school because of poverty. Send A Cow's Break...Fast campaign
aims to raise £500,000 to give to children in Africa for the #BestStart and every £1 donated will be doubled by the UK government.
The Most Important Meals Of Their Lives eBook is available to download from www.sendacow.org.uk/mostimportantmeal
For more information on the Break… Fast Appeal please visit www.sendacow.org.uk or tweet@SendaCow with the hashtag #BestStart.
*Thank you to Jocelyn from The Great Eats for providing me with the beautiful photos. Copy of the e-book was graciously provided by Send A Cow UK for this review.
