Forum From the Archives: Lizzie Stark Celebrates the Egg in Its Multitudes

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The egg, writes Lizzie Stark, is a "universe in a shell." It’s an ingenious piece of tech that contains everything a developing embryo needs, and it’s a symbol of the cosmos in creation myths across cultures. It’s been a tool of political protests, the target of wildlife poachers and the center of a Gold Rush-era territorial war on the Farallon Islands. It’s also inspired painters, conceptual artists and countless cooks. We talk to Stark about her new ode to the ovoid “Egg: A Dozen Ovatures.” This segment originally aired March 28, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.4	From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum.
1:19.2	I'm Mina Kim.
1:21.2	When Lizzie Stark was 39 years old, she had her ovaries removed after medical tests, put
1:25.7	her at a higher risk of cancer, and the procedure
1:28.3	contributed to what she calls for, quote, joyful but fraught relationship with eggs.
1:34.9	At the time, Stark was writing a book about the egg, as a food source, yes, but also as a biological
1:40.6	triumph, a cultural and mythological symbol, an object of art and an object of obsession.
1:46.6	The book is called Egg, a dozen overtures. And Lizzie Stark joins us to talk about everything
1:52.3	eggs mean to her and to us. Forum is next after this news.
2:02.4	I'm Mina Kim.
2:03.8	Welcome to Forum.
2:05.2	I love how the ordinary becomes extraordinary when you take a moment to really consider it.
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