Brunch

Sometimes you need a little something extra in your breakfast scramble — broccoli and cheddar just won't cut it. Pick up a few fresh, succulent cactus paddles, or nopales, at a Latin grocery and you might just discover your scrambled eggs' new favorite companion. They're juicy and flavorful, reminiscent of green peppers and asparagus. 

Enjoy this thoughtfully curated blend of stories and recipes that will surely incite a fiery craving for everyone's favorite breakfast meat. Yes, we polled the world and it was close, but bacon pulled ahead of sausage at the very end in a shocking turn of events. Actually, it's not that shocking. Enjoy our 10 favorite slides of bacon knowledge, advice, love and yes, just a tiny bit of show-offy bacon porn.

If there's one combination that may even be more classic than peanut butter and jelly on sandwich bread, it's cream cheese and lox on a bagel. Also, bagels with cream cheese and lox were there before peanut butter and jelly ever even set eyes on each other. On this glorious National Bagels and Lox Day, accept our humble offering of every time we've ever written about the pair's undying love for each other.