Have you heard of ‘Columbusing’? It’s a term used to describe the phenomenon of one person or a group of people ‘discovering’ something, which another group of people have known about for a really long time. Like, for example, when Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ America, even though Native Americans had been living there for thousands of years, and a Viking expedition had settled there years before. Whatever the thing is, the ‘discoverers’ usually re-brand it with a new name and then start walking around acting like they invented it. I feel this is what happened recently with the trend for ‘overnight oats’. That’s the Columbus name for bircher muesli. Bircher. Muesli. Invented by Dr Bircher-Benner of Switzerland around 1900. It’s so good that I’m not surprised people would try and claim it as their own. But I’m such an Alp-o-phile that I love the idea of eating a Swiss mountain breakfast, and I fully embrace the cool history of this dish. This is my favourite version, heavy on the apples, just like the original. Great with a breath of fresh Alpine air.