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Screen Time: Eating in Bed

So wrong, but so right.



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Photograph by Stephen Kent Johnson

 

You could qualify eating in bed as yet another one of life’s many activities subject to that age-old question: why do things that are so wrong feel so right? Yes, we know instinctively that using your sheets as a table can be precarious, particularly for the messier among us, and that there’s nothing that our mother would frown upon more than seeing plates anywhere near pillows, but we just can’t help it. And we celebrate anyone who feels the same, like these five characters whose bed-eating ways remain forever burned in our brains.

 


Kitty Packard
No one has ever made eating chocolates in bed look as glamorous as Jean Harlow did in the 1933 film Dinner at Eight.

 


Alexis Carrington
Dynasty‘s resident diva and premiere antagonist took her breakfast in bed with a full face of makeup and perfect coiff while wearing marabou feather-trimmed pajamas.

 


Lady Mary Crawley
On Downton Abbey, breakfast, even when enjoyed bedside and not in the sprawling fancy dining room while seated miles away from each other, is a formal affair.

 


Heather Chandler
OK, there’s no food here, but there is the hangover curative drink administered by JD and Veronica that would prove lethal.

 


George Costanza
He loved sex, he loved cured meat, so why not try to combine the two? But when George tried to invite a pastrami sandwich into bed with his girlfriend there would be no happy ending. As he lamented to Jerry the next day: “I flew too close to the sun on the wings of pastrami.”

Hungry? Try some of our recipes… in bed, of course.

 

 

Bedside Attractions

When we’re traveling, there’s nothing we enjoy quite as much as eating breakfast in our hotel bed, nibbling toast while snuggled up in a fluffy duvet cloud. So, when the mood strikes, why not do the same at home? Here, our favorite bedside-ready Gather recipes so you can be your own room service.

Morning Glory Yogurt

Silver Dollar Blini with Smoked Trout

Artichoke with Avocado Basil Dip

Cactus and Purple Potato Frittata

Shaved Asparagus Salad with Poached Egg

Quivering Blancmange

 


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