Breakfast and reading - a grand tradition

While breakfast makes for a perfectly delightful shared repast, there is also a long tradition of the solitary breakfast, which is often accompanied by reading material.  Depicted here is beautiful correspondence from my friend elin who is living in Lyon, France.  Right before she left it had come to light that we both adore receiving real live mail, and so we have been sending things to each other transatlantically over the past several months.  Also pictured here:  Cinnamon toast.  Cinnamon toast is the poor man's cinnamon roll, but it is pleasant in its own right.  This particular version incorporates seven-grain bread, Turbinado sugar and organic cinnamon.  The key is to take the toast out of the toaster oven just before it's done, butter it, and return it briefly into the oven, turned off but warm enough to melt the butter.  Generously spoon the cinnamon sugar and perhaps return it one last moment for the sugar and butter to blend.  For me there is an illicit thrill in the crunch of the melting sugar, a pleasure not available in its more refined cousin.