I am delicate but I am strong,
I may be hidden behind a shell, but when I crack
I am valuable, I am useful
I am life
Vanessa, Cheyenne, Addy, Tiffany

1. I am a simple oval egg
Living in a tiny shell
Made up of a yolk and a white
Yet the foundation of life
Stefania, Polina, Ana, Ganessha

2. Cracked, boil, fried or scrambled
Please take care how the egg is handled
The perfect egg, a pinnacle of culinary achievement
An egg on the floor will be a sign of bereavement
Matt, Sydney, Professors Jacus & Garcelon

3. Chase that egg running down the street
Boiled, poached, fried…runny yolks all
Hard, soft, scrambled…which is the best to eat?
Catch the chicken first!
Professors Schaible, Goodlad and Dellikan, Aguirre

4. Like two eggs passing through in the night
I was in the mood, eating eggs that night
Fried eggs, boiled eggs and scrambled eggs too
Hatch from the eggs and lay them too
Erdem, Ahmet, Courtney Sivillo, Kendijah

5. What is beneath that smooth porcelain skin?
Yellow and white like the stars in the night
It fell on the floor
Brocken and exposed
My egg is sexy
Hussein, Phil, Anthony, Julissa, Felicia

6. Boiled eggs they’re warm to the touch
They’re firm and hard when boiled
Hard, soft, runny or scrambled,
Firm and hard when boiled
Traveling through the land
George, Gadeer, Tiana, Courtney Smith

7. Throw it, crack it, spoil it
SPLAT!!! CER!!! YUK!!!
Eggs I don’t like them
I don’t like green eggs and ham
Someone once took a hardboiled egg & cracked it on their head
And slime came out instead!
Giselle, Anna, Mohammed

In my personal opinion breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Turkish people spend a lot of time eating breakfast in the morning till afternoon. We believe breakfast gives you the most of your energy and vitamins. Therefore it is so easy to start your day. Every single day I am having my breakfast first then start my day before leaving home. I know every single country; they have different of breakfast dishes. For me we usually eat different kind of cheese, egg, tomato, and olives kind of Mediterranean breakfast. However, in United States people like to eat croissants, bagels kind of easy things. For me these things are not breakfast it is just snacks, and here is how Turkish breakfast looks like.

I do think that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. However, i seldom have any breakfast in the morning. When I was younger I had a habit of waking up late and hurrying to get ready for school. I would race out of the house without even a glass of water. I wouldn’t eat until my lunch period at school, by then i’d be starving. I would eat my school lunch, come home eat a bigger lunch, and then finally eat a huge dinner really late at night. There would be some sugary/salty snacks in between those three meals as well. That pattern followed me through high school and into college. But now, i’ve found some improvements in my diets. There is no way I can start my day without my morning cup o’ joe. If I have time I make it at home and sip it while getting ready. Other than that i have it on the go. If i do take my coffee to go, its with a bagel or muffin. That will last me up until lunch and then finally my dinner meal if i have one. There are no longer any sugary snacks or chips from a bag.

I would like to think that many other Americans, New Yorkers in specific, have the same dietary patterns. The on the go coffee is a must during breakfast and maybe a breakfast sandwich will accompany it if we’re lucky. I think we would all agree that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but most of us just don’t make the time to enjoy it.

Around the world, people make a special time to prepare healthy foods. They sit down, consume fruits, grain, and nutrition around a table and gear up their energy to last them through the day. Thats the way breakfast should be treated, thats the way our days should begin. We just have to change our New Yorker habits.