Eggs, raising chickens, restorative farming
Good Food
KCRW
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Lizzie Stark hatches stories exploring the cultural history and uses of eggs while sharing her personal story. Cookbook author Irina Georgescu hungered for familiar Easter recipes while baking her way through the overlapping cultures of Romania. Tove Danovich loves raising backyard chickens, a tradition that dates back to her great-grandmother. Margot Anne Kelley revisits utopian back-to-the-land movements throughout American history. Craig McNamara turned to restorative farming as he grappled with the legacy of his father's involvement in the Vietnam War.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW I'm Evan Klineman and you're listening to good food. |
| 0:12.4 | The incredible edible egg has seen its fair share of news this |
| 0:16.0 | year with the spike in egg prices caused by everything from the avian flu to the |
| 0:21.1 | hike and fuel and feed costs, raising backyard chickens has re-emerged as a hoppy. |
| 0:27.0 | Yet even with a shortage, eggs are found on every continent, but which came first? |
| 0:32.0 | The chicken or the egg. That question was top of mind for |
| 0:36.8 | Lizzie Stark, author of Egg, A Dozen Obatures. Hi, Lizzy. |
| 0:44.0 | Hi, Evan. |
| 0:45.0 | What is your personal relationship with eggs |
| 0:48.0 | and how did you become so fascinated with them? |
| 0:52.0 | Well, I have always been fascinated with eggs. |
| 0:56.0 | They are the cornerstone of my relationship with my father. |
| 1:01.0 | My father is an avid hobbyist cook. He loves cooking. It's kind of like art. It's kind of like jazz. |
| 1:08.0 | When I was a young girl, my dad decided to do some father-daughter bonding with me on Saturday |
| 1:16.8 | mornings we would he would give me a lesson and how to cook breakfast and so we |
| 1:21.5 | did a lot of eggs and we did them in a semi-scientific |
| 1:26.2 | fashion. I think the first experiment was to soft boil an egg properly. I came home from my |
| 1:32.4 | swim lesson to find like three or four dozen eggs on the |
| 1:36.2 | counter and we boiled them for 30 second intervals to figure out the perfect soft cooked egg consistency. Basically we haven't stopped |
| 1:45.4 | experimenting since. I love that. You're so lucky to get to share that |
| 1:50.9 | relationship. |
| 1:52.6 | But I understand that you also have a more personal |
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