About Michelle Obama and her grilled cheese sandwich

You can't get around it this week. Michelle Obama has launched her long-awaited book into the world: ‘Becoming’. Notably, never before has so much been paid for a book deal. 60 million dollars, hi.

In her candid memoirs, she tells everything, everything. About the death threats directed at her. About the problems between her and Barack. About the fact that she couldn't open a window without being called by a SWAT team asking if it could be closed again. Never made food for herself. In an interview with Oprah she describes a brilliant toast story. A story so characteristic of her first weeks in the ‘transition period’ that I don't want to withhold it from you.

Michelle describes how she just moved into her new house in Washington. The first normal house, with a door and a doorbell, that she has had in about eight years. “So I'm standing in my new house, I'm alone with our dogs Bo and Sunny, and I'm doing something very simple. I go downstairs and open the cupboard in my own kitchen, something you don't do in the White House, because there's always someone who says: “Let me. What do you want? What do you need?” But now I made a toast for myself. A cheese toast,” says Michelle.

“Then I walked into my backyard with my toast. I sat on the porch and in the distance, dogs were barking, and I realized that Bo and Sunny had never heard neighborhood dogs before. You could see them thinking: “What is that?” And I was like: “Yeah guys, this is the real world.” It was that quiet moment when I slowly started to adjust to this new life. When I had time to think about what had actually happened in the past eight years.”

If the Obamas lacked anything, it was time to think. Everything was happening at such a frantic pace, day in and day out. They were busy. Michelle tells in her book that she forgot what happened on Monday on Tuesday. How bizarre is such a life, I wonder.

“I forgot entire countries I had visited, literally entire countries. I once had a conversation with my chief of staff and I said: “You know what, I want to go to Prague.” And Melissa said: “You've already been there.” And I was sure: “No, I haven't been there. I haven't been to Prague, I've never been to Prague.” She had to show me a photo of me in Prague to refresh my memory. So that toast was the moment when I had time to think about those eight years and the path I had taken.”

Michelle, if anyone understands how important cheese toasts are in life and the space to eat them in peace, it's me, girlfriend. I will definitely get your book.