Lizzie Stark Celebrates the Egg in Its Multitudes

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 56 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.” Guests: Lizzie Stark, author, "Egg: A Dozen Ovatures" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.0	I'm Mina Kim. When Lizzie Stark was 39 years old,
0:56.9	she had her ovaries removed after medical tests, put her at a high risk of cancer, and the procedure
1:02.2	contributed to what she calls her, quote, joyful but fraught relationship with eggs. At the time,
1:09.4	Stark was writing a book about the egg.
1:11.1	As a food source, yes, but also as a biological triumph, a cultural and mythological symbol,
1:17.2	an object of art and an object of obsession.
1:20.5	The book is called Egg, A Dozen Overtures.
1:23.7	And Lizzie Stark joins us to talk about everything eggs mean to her and to us.
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