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My toast ensemble sounds high-maintenance, but it’s worth the effort: toasted sourdough (always), mashed avocado, goat cheese crumbles, everything bagel seasoning, microgreens, over-easy egg, and chili crisp oil.

— Courtney Lewis Opdahl, 
managing editor

It depends on the occasion. Am I eating eggs and sausage? I want half butter, half jam. Am I running late for something? Then it’s crunchy peanut butter. Am I traveling? I’ll use whatever fruit butter I can get my hands on. I love to feel fancy, even through a humble piece of toast.

— Cole Luskey,
business and circulation specialist

Coconut oil, natural peanut butter, honey from a friend’s bee apiary, and sliced banana.

— Christy Rice,
digital content specialist

toast with peanut butter, bananas and honey

Strawberry jam! Ideally, it would be the homemade jam made by two friends of mine. But I also like other locally crafted jams and preserves — the kind you can buy at farmers’ markets in small towns.

— Brett Fechheimer,
fact-checker/copy editor

toast with strawberry jam

 Butter, then peanut butter, then sliced super-sour dill pickles. Fat and acid!

— Courtney Helgoe,
executive editor

Thick, cold slabs of Kerrygold butter, preferably on lukewarm toast so the butter doesn’t melt and I can bite into it.

— Anjula Razdan,
senior director–digital

toast with avocado and tomato slices

Hands down, my favorite combo is avocado, fresh cherry tomatoes, a drizzle of high-quality olive oil, and everything bagel seasoning. Sometimes I’ll add a schmear of cream cheese too.

— Jamie Martin,
editor in chief

My toast ensemble sounds high-maintenance, but it’s worth the effort: toasted sourdough (always), mashed avocado, goat cheese crumbles, everything bagel seasoning, microgreens, over-easy egg, and chili crisp oil.

— Courtney Lewis Opdahl, 
managing editor

Coconut oil, natural peanut butter, honey from a friend’s bee apiary, and sliced banana.

— Christy Rice,
digital content specialist

toast with peanut butter, bananas and honey

 Butter, then peanut butter, then sliced super-sour dill pickles. Fat and acid!

— Courtney Helgoe,
executive editor

Thick, cold slabs of Kerrygold butter, preferably on lukewarm toast so the butter doesn’t melt and I can bite into it.

— Anjula Razdan,
senior director–digital

toast with strawberry jam

Strawberry jam! Ideally, it would be the homemade jam made by two friends of mine. But I also like other locally crafted jams and preserves — the kind you can buy at farmers’ markets in small towns.

— Brett Fechheimer,
fact-checker/copy editor

It depends on the occasion. Am I eating eggs and sausage? I want half butter, half jam. Am I running late for something? Then it’s crunchy peanut butter. Am I traveling? I’ll use whatever fruit butter I can get my hands on. I love to feel fancy, even through a humble piece of toast.

— Cole Luskey,
business and circulation specialist

Hands down, my favorite combo is avocado, fresh cherry tomatoes, a drizzle of high-quality olive oil, and everything bagel seasoning. Sometimes I’ll add a schmear of cream cheese too.

— Jamie Martin,
editor in chief

toast with avocado and tomato slices
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