{"id":142085,"date":"2021-09-28T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T16:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=142085"},"modified":"2024-06-29T13:24:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T18:24:52","slug":"how-to-make-james-bond-scrambled-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/leisure\/food-drink\/how-to-make-james-bond-scrambled-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make James Bond Scrambled Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In addition to being a cold, effective secret agent, the James Bond of Ian Fleming\u2019s novels is also something of, well, a foodie. Over the course of the book series (you can find the series\u2019 five best installments here<\/a>) Fleming describes, often in sumptuous detail, seventy<\/em> of 007\u2019s meals. Bond noshes on crab, samples caviar, and sips champagne with relish, but with the lack of affectation and air of indifference with which he goes about all activities. His knowledge of food is part of his savoir faire<\/em> \u2014 his ability to fit into and make the most of all situations<\/a>. The fine meals he often enjoys amidst his missions are also little respites from the stresses that come with his line of work \u2014 \u201cwonderful moments of consolation . . . for the darkness and danger of his profession.\u201d<\/p>\n

But while Bond\u2019s tastes can lean towards the gourmet while on assignment (might as well charge a fine dining meal to one\u2019s expense account if tomorrow you may die!), in his more day-to-day life, he\u2019s content with simpler fare: sandwiches, steaks, and, very especially, scrambled eggs. Indeed, there are only three books in Fleming\u2019s twelve book series in which scrambled eggs are not<\/em> mentioned.<\/p>\n

In From Russia With Love<\/em><\/a>, Fleming writes that \u201cBreakfast was Bond\u2019s favorite meal of the day,\u201d but 007 doesn\u2019t reserve the eating of scrambled eggs for the a.m. \u2014 he also enjoys them for lunch, dinner, and even a late-night repast. He often eats the dish with buttered toast (frequently paired with marmalade) and bacon or sausage, and washes it down with black coffee (sometimes doctored with a nip of something stronger).<\/p>\n

While Bond\u2019s scrambled eggs are typically prepared for him by others \u2014 his beloved Scottish maid and the cooks of the restaurants he patronizes \u2014 he also knows how to make them himself, as evidenced by his whipping up a \u201cvast\u201d amount of them in the short story \u201cThe Living Daylights,\u201d and the footnote in \u201c007 in New York,\u201d in which Fleming, who was himself a scrambled eggs devotee, shared his creation\u2019s recipe for the dish.<\/p>\n

Below you\u2019ll find that recipe quoted verbatim, followed by a visual guide to making it, along with our personal commentary and opinion as to how 007\u2019s eggs turned out.<\/p>\n

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SCRAMBLED EGGS \u2018JAMES BOND\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

For FOUR individualists:<\/p>\n