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Brunch is a meal,
Origin of the word
The 1896, supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary cites Punch magazine, which wrote that the term was coined in Britain in 1895 to describe a Sunday meal for "Saturday-night carousers" in the writer Guy Beringer's article "Brunch: A Plea"[6] in Hunter's Weekly.[7][8]
Instead of England's early Sunday dinner, a postchurch ordeal of heavy meats and savory pies, the author wrote, why not a new meal, served around noon, that starts with tea or coffee, marmalade and other breakfast fixtures before moving along to the heavier fare
By eliminating the need to get up early on Sunday, brunch would make life brighter for Saturday-night carousers. It would promote human happiness in other ways as well.
"Brunch is cheerful, sociable and inciting", Beringer wrote. "It is talk-compelling. It puts you in a good temper, it makes you satisfied with yourself and your fellow beings, it sweeps away the worries and cobwebs of the week."
— William Grimes, "At Brunch, the More Bizarre the Better" New York Times, 1998[9]
Despite the substantially later date, it has also been claimed that the term was possibly coined by reporter Frank Ward O'Malley, who wrote in the early
At colleges and hotels
Some
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The United States, Canada and United Kingdom militaries often serve weekend brunch in their messes. They offer breakfast and lunch options, and usually are open from 09:00-12:00.
Dim Sum brunch
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Special occasions
Brunch is prepared by restaurants and hotels for special occasions and holidays, such as
In other languages
Chinese
The Chinese word "早午饭" (pinyin: zǎo wǔfàn) is defined as brunch, with "早饭" (zǎofàn; 早: morning, 饭: meal) meaning breakfast; and "午饭" (wǔfàn; 午: noon, 饭: meal) meaning lunch. The combination of "早饭" and "午饭" is thus "早午饭", brunch.
French
The Office québécois de la langue française accepts 'brunch' as a valid word but also provides a synonym déjeuner-buffet. Note that, however, in Quebec, déjeuner alone (even without the qualifying adjective petit) means 'breakfast'.[14] In Quebec, the word—when francized—is pronounced [bʁɔ̃ʃ].[15]
Italian
In Italian, the English loanword 'brunch' is generally used, though the neologism/calque colanzo is increasingly popular, being derived from colazione (breakfast) and pranzo (lunch).[16] Even less common but occasionally used is pranzolazione, derived from the same sources.[17]
The usage of these terms varies in Italy, as different regions have different cultural definitions of mealtimes and their names. Traditional usage, particularly in northern Italy, included calling the first meal of the day prima colazione (first colazione), and the second meal either colazione or seconda colazione (second colazione), as distinguished from pranzo, the evening meal (now generally used as the term for the midday meal).[18] In this scheme, a separate term for 'brunch' would not be necessary, as colazione could be used as a general term for any meal taken in the morning or early afternoon. Although Italian meal terminologies have generally shifted since widespread use of this naming scheme, the concept of a distinct mid-morning meal combining features of breakfast and lunch is largely one imported from the UK and North America in the last century, so the Anglicism 'brunch' is predominant.[19]
Other places
Canada
The area now known as Leslieville neighbourhood is sometimes called the brunch capital of Toronto, as many renowned establishments serve brunch there.[20] Brunch buffets also exist in other parts of Southern Ontario, including Kitchener-Waterloo.
In Canada, brunch is served in private homes and in restaurants. In both cases, brunch typically consists of the same dishes as would be standard in an American brunch, namely,
When served at home or in a restaurant, a brunch may be offered
Philippines
Brunch in the Philippines is served between 9:00 am and noon. Contrary to what is observed in other countries, brunch in the afternoon, between 3:00 and 4:00 pm, is called merienda, a traditional snack carried over from Spanish colonialism.
Gallery
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A brunch on a ship, Lake Constance, Germany
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A homemade brunch consisting of cooked eggs on toast and salad, accompanied by orange juice
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A formal brunch buffet aboard the Celebrity Equinox
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Cheeseburger as brunch
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Coldcuts and cheeses with bread in a brunch buffet
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Huevos rancheros as brunch
See also
- Drag brunch
- Elevenses
- Israeli breakfast
- List of breakfast topics
- List of brunch foods
- Second breakfast
References
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- ^ Du, Lisa. "Finally: Confirmation That Brunch Really Was Invented To Cure Your Hangover". Business Insider. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
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- ^ Office de la langue française, 1999, Le Grand Dictionnaire Archived 2 April 2003 at archive.today, entry "Brunch": "Repas combinant le petit déjeuner et le repas du midi, et habituellement constitué d'un buffet". (A meal that combines the breakfast and lunch and usually consists of a buffet.)
- ^ La Petite Larousse (2009), p. 140
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- ^ "Italian Word of the Day: Colazione (breakfast) – Daily Italian Words". 2 July 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- ^ Tibaldi, Andrea. "Brunch". Cibo360.it (in Italian). Retrieved 25 April 2021.
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