by cordys_lunds | Dec 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Egg: A Culinary Exploration of the World’s Most Versatile Ingredient by Michael Ruhlman In this innovative cookbook, James Beard award-winning author Michael Ruhlman explains why the egg is the key to the craft of cooking. For culinary visionary Michael Ruhlman,...
by cordys_lunds | Nov 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Vietnamese Egg Soda People in Vietnam love to drink eggs. I tried an “egg coffee”—strong, sweet coffee with a whole egg in it (the whites make an even more voluptuous foam than milk). Soda sua hot ga is another eggy beverage, which on the menu at my local pho shop,...
by cordys_lunds | Sep 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
A bit of egg history The theory of the humors produces a myth that persists to today: eggs as aphrodisiac. In The Secret Miracles of Nature, published in 1658, Levinus Lemnius explains that eggs, like certain other “meats of good juice,” have a tendency to “stir up...
by cordys_lunds | Sep 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Why Do We Eat Eggs for Breakfast, Anyway? It’s difficult to answer this question without also asking, Why do we eat breakfast? The Ancient Romans ate breakfast, which they called ientaculum, and included eggs, if available. When the Romans were pushed out of Europe,...
by cordys_lunds | Aug 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Safely store eggs at home Why should we store our eggs in the refrigerator when people in other countries don’t?Different countries have different approaches for controlling salmonella in or on eggs. Egg production practices, egg washing, and hen vaccinations...
