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).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages).

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2020.

Summary:

"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange object-strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker's Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so that reproductive science and gustatory habits are considered alongside one another, and personal narrative and broad swaths of natural history jostle, like yolk and albumen. Mapping curious eggs across times, scales, and spaces, Egg draws together surprising perspectives on this common object-egg as food, as art object, as metaphor and feminist symbol, as cultural icon. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic."-- Provided by publisher.

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 index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781501322884

1501322885

9781501322860

1501322869

9781501322877

1501322877

OCLC:

1201425995