A few notes. I've been running out of breakfasts to post about. This doesn't mean I love breakfast any less, but there simply has been a lot of redundancy. Perhaps I've reached the limits of this home breakfast blog - although I do love eggs and this hasn't been terribly egg-centric. I also imagine I would like to begin to document lovely and amazing breakfasts served in the vast sea of cafes, restaurants and hotels in this big and beautiful world of ours. I have not given up on that as a possibility. It is a lovely and idyllic dream.
Now, as for today's breakfast, I need to straight up admit that while the above-pictured La Brea Bakery pecan raisin toast was nice, I've solidly decided that it has been demoted to third best of my current faves. First place hands down goes to Weaver Street Market's walnut raisin (yes I know it's not pecan and therein might alone be a huge flavor difference, but they're really quite similar - similar enough to compare - and this, after all, my blog so I kind of make the rules). The WSM version is just super crusty and has a sour dough-ish tang to it. All in all it's heartier and has more soul. This kind of makes me sad, actually. I used to live around the corner from La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, around the corner from the actual La Brea Bakery. This was a magical place and I'm wondering - nay, I'm assuming - that the version that I'm now purchasing at the Harris Teeter Market in Carrboro, North Carolina, has been created for the mass market - baked, frozen, shipped and finished at the market. Somewhere in that process something has been lost. Sad.
As for my current second-place fave that one goes solidly to the Whole Foods version. It's quite good.
That's it for now - we'll see what the next post brings...
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