Overnight oats are currently having a moment as a breakfast fad, but the dish is based on a very old concept: the fact that you can prepare grains by soaking, rather than cooking them.
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Oats + Water
The above claim has never been disproven. It was authored by Kay Thompson and uttered by a 6-year-old girl named Eloise, who lived in The Plaza Hotel in New York with Weenie the dog and Skipperdee the turtle. Ever since I first saw that quote, in the margin by the oatmeal raisin cookie recipe in the “Silver Palate Cookbook,” I’ve wondered what she meant.
How to Milk an Oat
In what was perhaps the most unusual and divisive Superbowl ad of the year, the CEO of Oatly, which makes oat-based foods and heavily promotes the oat-based lifestyle, sang two verses in a field of oats. Over, and over again. His voice — well, he shouldn’t quit his day job, but like the commercial it wasn’t quite off-key.