On Food and Cooking

first created the creatures, not their reproductive apparatus. The Victorian Samuel Butler awarded the egg overall pri ...

before dividing — a mixing that greatly facilitated genetic change. Specialized egg and sperm cells became nece ...

all beings and all desires rose up toward it. Therefore at its rise and at its every return, shouts and hur ...

animals, the reptiles, developed a self- contained egg with a leathery skin that slowed fatal w ...

which the chicken belongs, is a mere 8 million years old, and Gallus gallus, the chicken species, has been ...

prolific egg production than for their meat. Some birds will lay only a set number of eggs at ...

overtones of light and life. It comes from the Old English for “yellow,” whose Greek cousin meant “yellow-green ...

were dressing poached eggs with the sauce that would come to be called crème anglaise. Savory ...

spectacular birds, so different from the run of the barnyard, touched off a chicken-breeding craze comparable to ...

mix with honey as for other milk dishes, add five eggs for [a pint], three for [a half- pint]. Mix them ...

Among industrialized countries, only France and Australia have remained independent of the handful of multinatio ...

A Medieval Omelet and English Cream Arboulastre (An Omelet) [First prepare mixed herbs, including rue, tansy, mint, ...

square or round form, and eat it neither too hot nor too cold. — Le Ménagier de Paris, ca. 1390 Poche to Potag ...

than three, so both chickens and eggs are bargains among animal foods. Egg quality has also improved. ...

to document in taste tests; see p. 87.) In addition, mass husbandry has played a role in the rising in ...

access to the outdoors. The term “free-range” can be misleading; it sometimes means only that the chickens li ...

100 times greater than a human’s. Each egg is about 3% of the hen’s weight, so in a year of laying, sh ...

cells begin to mature, with different cells at different stages at any given time. Full maturation tak ...

long. If the hen has mated in recent days, there will be sperm stored in a “nest” at the upper ...

albumen as possible between the embryo and the shell, and prevents premature contact between shell and embryo, whic ...