Watching Toast Burn...

Toasters really don't have a place in a modern TWT's kitchen, beacause amid all of your stainless steel gadgets and electrics, it just looks out of place. But place one of Williams Sonoma's Magimix Vision Toasters $350 next to the eighteen-lever espresso maker, and it will look happy and very at home. It has four pre-programmed settings including Toast, Bagel, Reheat, and Defrost, and crumbs are never an issue because you can just slide out the base to sweep them up. Plus you can see how golden brown your whole wheat toast is, whether you like it half toasted or double toasted.

Gourmet Breakfast...Rustic Style...IDI!

Being a TWT requires a lot of work, planning, and preparation. Planned dinner parties, perfect complexions, self control (around the candy dish at least,) and being ahead of all the ever changing trends for a start. But what about those rare days when you and SO can lounge in your Pratesi sheets, bathrobes, and undone hair? Occasionally, these days will happen, when even your mood for breakfast isn't complicated or decadent. That's why all TWT's should keep something gourmet, yet rustically authentic in the pantry for these laid-back IDI (I deserve it!) mornings. Whether your chef, maid, or just you and SO make breakfast, be sure to keep these pancake mixes on hand;

Vosges Bacon Chocolate Chip Pancake Mix 3 for $32

Stonewall Kitchen Banana Pancake Mix $8.95

Williams Sonoma Dutch Baby German Pancake Mix $9.50

Crate and Barrel Organic Meyer Lemon Pancake Mix $6.95

Dean and Deluca Oat and Honey Pancake Mix $8