Egg / Nicole Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Nicole, author.

Series:

Object lessons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eggs--Philosophy--Popular works.

Eggs.

Eggs--Social aspects--Popular works.

Cooking (Eggs)--Popular works.

Cooking (Eggs).

Social aspects.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Popular works.

Physical Description:

xiii, 154 pages ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2017.

Summary:

Taking in Faberge eggs, Easter eggs, dinosaur eggs, eggs across cultures and cuisines, rotten eggs, and good eggs, Egg is a whimsical and sometimes surprisingly serious examination of the humble egg.

Contents:

Dear egg

Why we break the things we love the most

Rotten eggs

The egg came first

Experiment with eggs by making a hollandaise in the time of global warming

How to cook a planet

Spoons

The glue that holds us together

All the eggs in Israel

All the eggs in Ukraine

All the eggs in Korea

All the eggs in China

Eggs in Utah

Mohawk

So many eggs, one small basket

Which came first? : chicken porn can help you make up your mind about eggs

Breaking a few eggs

Blue planet, blue omelet

Humpty Dumpty, revised

Do eggs bring skunks?

Would you eat a red speckled egg?

The incredible, edible egg

What is a cloaca?

A million-year-old egg

A lot of pressure on one egg

Sidewalk cooking eggs

A science fair every year

The sex lives of fish

"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell," Zora Neale Hurston

Recipe for an already-cracked egg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Walker, Nicole. Egg.

ISBN:

9781501322853

1501322850

OCLC:

946903570

Publisher Number:

99981561299