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Egg: A Dozen Ovatures
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN13:
9780393531503
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An unconventional history of the worlds largest cellular workhorse, from chickens to penguins, art to egg crimes, and more. Lizzie Stark takes readers on a witty, revealing, and delightful journey through the natural and cultural history of the egg, exploring its deep symbolism, innumerable uses, and metabolic importance in twelve dazzling specimens. From Mali to Finland, Stark looks at cultures that find the worlds origins in an egg. Decorated by Ukrainians, an oracle for Greeks, the impetus behind gang wars, and flown into space, the eggwhether of chickens, murres, or ostricheshas taken on mythic proportions, all the while serving as a humble ingredient in fancy dishes. Stark even writes Jacques Pépins biography through the lens of the egg dishes he served. Egg is also about Starks fascination with this delicate ovoidboth her myriad attempts to create a perfect omelet and her fraught relationship to the ova in her body. Filled with colorful characters and fascinating morsels, Egg is a playful, informative, and surprising history that guarantees youll never take the egg for granted again.
- | Author: Lizzie Stark
- | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- | Publication Date: Mar 28, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 240 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0393531503
- | ISBN-13: 9780393531503
- Author:
- Lizzie Stark
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:
- Mar 28, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 240 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0393531503
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393531503