One, a $500-a-head breakfast at Johnny's Half Shell, a restaurant on Capitol Hill, will feature House and Senate Democrats including Senators Kirsten E. Gillibrand of New York and Barbara Boxer of California.
In Portland, Oregon, President Bush told a thousand-dollar-a-head breakfast that while he was concerned about the few remaining chunks of old-growth woods in the Pacific Northwest and about the northern spotted owl, which will die out if those ancient forests are cut, he wanted to "balance" the mandates of the Endangered Species Act with the "economic consequences" of enforcing it.
On closer examination these reports came from a US press conference following an informal Heads breakfast.
Having dumped my bags at the cozy Lao Heritage Hotel in a quiet bougainvillea-painted street, I head for breakfast at Le Banneton, the city's best bakery.
Tortilla scramble, with bacon, green onions and cheese, served with warm flour tortillas ($8.95), and veggie eggs Benedict with avocado, tomatoes and mushrooms ($9.50) head the breakfast offerings.
The writing definitely improved: you know, I was waking up in the morning for the first time with a clear head, wanting breakfast".
The heating comes on as I'm waking, so I sit tight for a while, until my room warms up, shower, and head for breakfast, annoyingly only served till 9.30am.
The conversation moved "du coq à l'âne" — from the rooster to the donkey, meaning all over the place: how the Spanish chef Ferran Adrià had served them in a paella made with lamb's head for breakfast, how the grand duke had received them in Luxembourg, how the only thing worth eating at the tony Automobile Club de France was the cheese.
