Egg

A Dozen Ovatures

By: Lizzie Stark

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Paperback | 26 March 2024 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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21.0 x 14.0 x 1.4

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The egg is a paradox--both alive and not alive--and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natural and cultural history, Lizzie Stark explores the egg's deep meanings, innumerable uses, and metabolic importance through a dozen dazzling specimens.

From Mali to Finland, mythologies around the globe have invested the egg with powers of regeneration and fecundity, often ascribing the origin of the world to a cosmic egg. An oracle to Romans, fought over by Gold Rush gangs, used as the foundation of the Clown Egg Registry, and blasted into space, the egg has taken on larger proportions than, say, the ovum of an ostrich.

It has starred in global dishes from the Korean comfort food ttukbaegi gyeranjjim to the less regaled yet iconic soft-boiled egg. Stark writes a biography of French-born chef Jacques P pin through his egg creations, and weaves in her personal experiences, like attempting to make the perfect omelet or trying her hand at pysanky--the Ukrainian art of egg decoration. She also explores her fraught relationship to the eggs in her body due to a familial link to cancer, and shares her delight in becoming a mother.

Filled with colorful characters and fascinating morsels, Egg is playful, informative, and guarantees that you'll never take this delicate ovoid for granted again.

Industry Reviews

"Covers just about every aspect of the egg: biology, symbolism, health, medicine, art, culture, cultivation and, of course, cookery... Even the practical uses of eggshells are described in the book's lively pages." -- The New York Times
"Fun, interesting and thoroughly enjoyable, this book explores the humble egg from angles you never imagined." -- Luxury London
"Crack this book like an egg and suck up 200 pages of Lizzie Stark delightfulness! Here is early career Jacques Pepin making sous vide eggs at Howard Johnson's! Gender-shifting chickens! Greedy eggers! Maniacal collectors! Egg is eclectic and funny, informative and endlessly surprising... Like the egg itself, this book is a perfect miraculous, package." -- Mary Roach, bestselling author of Fuzz

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