Anthropology of Food

see also:
chickens

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Chicken
Egg (food)
Egg allergy
Egg decorating
Pysanka
Egging
Eggshell
Egg white
Egg yolk
Easter egg
List of egg dishes
List of egg topics
Ovo vegetarianism
animal welfare / animal rights
Battery cage
Fish eggs
Humpty Dumpty
Category:Eggs
Category:Eggs in culture
Wikimedia Commons—Category:Eggs in art
Wikimedia Commons—Category:People with chickens

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In the news . . .

• How Brexit Ruined Easter for Britain’s Chocolate Makers -- The New York Times (03 April 2021)
  
  
• The truth about eating eggs -- BBCReel (22 March 2021)
  
  
• Here are the 10 Plant-Based Food Trends That Will Be Big in 2021 -- The Beet (31 December 2020)
  
  
• The truth about eating eggs -- BBCfuture (23 April 2020)
  
  
• Eggshell beads made by hunter-gatherers 33000 years ago used as a social network -- CNN (10 March 2020)
  
  
• Why Do Americans Refrigerate Their Eggs and Most Other Countries Don't? (15:49) -- Today I Found Out (15 November 2019)
  
  
• Why cake mix lacks one essential ingredient -- BBCfuture (10 November 2017)
  
  
• The 500-year-old snack [the “century egg”] -- BBCNews (18 December 2015)
  
  
• McDonald's move to cage-free eggs is a tipping point for the industry -- StarTribune (04 October 2015)
  
  
• Weird foods only a local could love [Huitlacoche] -- BBCtravel (05 July 2016)
  
  
• The Pagan Roots Of Easter -- Science 2.0 (02 April 2015)
  
  
• 300,000 Year-Old Eggshells Aid in Re-Construction of Palaeolithic Environment -- Past Horizons (31 March 2015)
  
  
• 5 Reasons the Tyson-Hillshire Buyout is a Big [Meat] Deal -- Siena Chrisman, Civil Eats (02 September 2014)
  
  
• What a Difference a Cage Makes: California's Humane Egg Battle -- Twilight Greenaway, Civil Eats (03 September 2014)
  
  
• Food-tech startups aim to replace eggs and chicken -- MPRNews (08 December 2013)
  
  
• The egg box that updates a humble yet classic design -- BBC (21 March 2013)
  
  
• Chinese chicken lays monster egg with another egg inside (17 March 2013)
  
  
• Where do milk, eggs and bacon come from? One in three youths don't know -- The Telegraph (14 June 2012)

• Books about Eggs -- The Organiclinker Bookstore
  
  
• Easter eggs 'may be healthy'
  Easter eggs and other chocolate can be good for you, as long as you eat only small amounts, latest research suggests.
  
  
• Freidberg, Susanne. "Eggs: Shell Games," Ch. 3 of FRESH: A Perishable History. Harvard Belknap, 2010.
  
  
• Glassner, Barry. The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know about Food is Wrong. NY: Harper Collins, 2007.
  
  
• How long it takes to boil an egg at different temperatures and altitudes-- altitude.org
  
  
• Hunting for the World’s Oldest Decorated Eggs -- Past Horizons (29 April 2012)
  
  
• To Correctly Cook Hard-Cooked (Boiled) Eggs -- What's Cooking America
  
  
• Egg Miles Calculator (UK) -- Organic Linker
  
  
• "Eggs in Swedish Cookery," Ch. 7 of Bringéus, Nils-Arvid. Man, Food and Milieu: A Swedish Approach to Food Ethnology. Tuckwell, 2001.
  
  
• Newman, Kara. The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. Columbia University Press, 2012.
  
  
• Toops, Diane. Eggs: A Global History. London: Reaktion Books, 2014.
  
  
• United Poultry Concerns
  
  
• Unsafe eggs linked to U.S. failure to act -- Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post (11 December 2010)
  • Who is responsible for U.S. eggs? The answer depends on where the egg is, and in what form
  
  
  
• USDA Economic Research Service
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    • Poultry & Eggs

 

Schematic of a chicken egg: 1. Eggshell 2. Outer membrane 3. Inner membrane 4. Chalaza 5. Exterior albumen 6. Middle albumen 7. Vitelline membrane 8. Nucleus of pander 9. Germinal disc (nucleus) 10. Yellow yolk 11. White yolk 12. Internal albumen 13. Chalaza 14. Air cell 15. Cuticula The shape of an egg is an ovate spheroid with one end larger than the other end. The egg has cylindrical symmetry along the long axis. Wikipedia

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Tacuinum Sanitatis
(a medieval handbook on wellness)

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Old woman selling eggs.
Hendrick Bloemaert
(c. 1601, Utrecht – 1672)

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Ostrich egg (right), compared to chicken egg (left)

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