Robert Bannister wrote:
> Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:
>
>> I think that the heat moves things out a bit at mid-day and the cool
>> of the
>> evening moves them back a little.
>
>
> Not just weather - life style. In most of the famous Russian novels, the
> aristocracy have breakfast (zavtrak) around noon, a meal whose name I
> have forgotten in the early evening, dinner (obyed) towards midnight and
> supper in the small hours of the morning.
>

In "Buddenbrooks", by Thomas Mann, which I read in English, the family
always ate "first breakfast', and then another breakfast later in the
morning. I don't know what term was used in the original though.

Fran