Games. The egg features in many popular games around the world: egg hunt, egg toss, egg rolling, egg tapping.
Hollandaise sauce. A rich, lemony sauce thickened with egg yolks. Most likely invented in France in the late 17th Century, and named for the country of Holland, which was famous for its butter – another of the sauce’s key ingredients.
Inexpensive beauty treatment: because they are naturally drying, egg whites have long been used as a homemade facial.
Joseph Coyle. He was a newspaper editor from British Columbia and invented the egg carton in 1911 to solve a dispute between two locals about broken eggs.
Kosher. Considered neutral under Kosher dietary laws, eggs may be eaten with both milk and meat.
Lady Gaga. Miss Germanotta made her entrance at 2011 Grammy awards enclosed in a gigantic egg: she “walked” the red carpet carried by four men.
Meringue, A foam of beaten egg whites and sugar. The name ‘meringue’ came from a pastry chef named Gasparini in the Swiss town of Merhrinyghen in 1720.
Nutrients. eggs are one of the most complete foods on earth, containing every single essential vitamin (except for C) and all the amino acids.
Omelette. The ancient Romans supposedly made the first omelette, which they sweetened with honey, calling it ovemele (eggs and honey). The name may also come from the French word, “allumelette” meaning blade, which describes the long, flat shape of an omelette.
Pala di Brera. In this painting the author, the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, depicts the Virgin with an egg hanging over her head: as in other artistic representations, the egg symbolises life and birth.
Quail eggs. Popular as street food in Vietnam and the Philippines. In South America, a single hard-boiled quail egg is a common hamburger topping.
Recipes. It is said that a chef’s hat, the toque, has one pleat for each of the ways you can cook an egg. Eggs are one of the most versatile ingredients in your kitchen.
Size. The main factor that determines the size of an egg, is the age of the hen. The commercial categories are calculated on the basis of weight. In the US there are 6 categories (from 35 g. “peewee” to 71 g. “jumbo”), 4 in Europe (from 53 g. to over 73 g.), 8 in New Zealand (45 g – 75 g). In Australia, only the categories L, XL and Jumbo are recognised.
Temperature of a freshly-laid egg: 160°F.
Uncooked egg yolks are an excellent, easily digested protein drink that athletes have used for generations. Remember Rocky?
Vitamin D. Eggs are one of the few foods that naturally contain the “sunshine” vitamin.
World egg. Also called the “cosmic egg”, it’s the mythological representation – among many religions and cultures – of creation. The symbol of birth, life and beginnings, the egg is considered the origin of all that exists. According to mythology, primordial chaos was transformed into the universe with the breaking of an egg.
Xanthophylls. Is the yellow-orange pigment found in plants eaten by hens that gives yolks their colour. Yolk. Contains all the fat in the egg and half of proteins: the yolk of an egg contains about 55 calories.
Zillion-dollar frittata. Is the most expensive omelette in the world: actually costs $1,000 and is served at Norma’s at the Le Parker Meridien hotel in NYC. It’s made with six eggs, an entire lobster and 10 oz. of sevruga caviar.
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