Silent breakfast

Breakfast usually gets eaten as background to the news, and by lunch you cannot remember what it was. Half an hour of quiet gives the food its taste back.

The night before, take your phone out of the kitchen — not face down on the table, but into another room. Make a breakfast you cannot eat on the move: something you slice, spread, pour. Sit down, turn off the radio and any background noise, and for the first two minutes just look at the food. Eat slowly and notice temperature, smell and sound: the crunch, the spoon, the kettle behind you. When you catch yourself already at work in your head, come back to the taste in your mouth. Get up only when the plate is empty, and wash up in the same silence.

What noise do you usually switch on in the morning, and what is it leading you away from?