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overtones of light and life It comes from the Old English for “yellow,” whose Greek cousin meant “yellow-green,” the color of new plant growth Both the Old English and the Greek derive ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning “to gleam, to glimmer.” The same root gave us glow and gold Cooked Eggs Doubtless bird eggs have been roasted ever since humans mastered fire; in As You Like It Shakespeare has Touchstone call Corin “damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.” Salting and pickling eggs are ancient treatments that preserved the spring’s bounty for use throughout the year We know from the recipes of Apicius that the Romans ate ova frixa, elixa, et hapala — fried, boiled, and “soft” eggs — and the patina, which could be a savory quiche or a sweet custard By medieval times, the French were sophisticated omelet makers and the English were dressing poached eggs with the sauce that would come to be called crème anglaise Savory yolk-based sauces and egg-white foams developed over the next three centuries By around 1900, Escoffier had a repertoire of more than 300 egg dishes, and in his Gastronomie Pratique, Ali Bab gave a playful recipe for a “Symphony of Eggs” — a fouregg omelet containing two chopped hardcooked and six whole poached eggs The Industrial Egg Hen Fever The chicken underwent more evolutionary change between 1850 and 1900 than it had in its entire lifetime as a species, and under an unusual selection pressure: the fascination of Europeans and Americans with the exotic East A political opening between England and China brought specimens of previously unknown Chinese breeds, the large, showy Cochins, to the West These ... Hen Fever The chicken underwent more evolutionary change between 1850 and 1900 than it had in its entire lifetime as a species, and under an unusual selection pressure: the fascination of Europeans and Americans with... egg dishes, and in his Gastronomie Pratique, Ali Bab gave a playful recipe for a “Symphony of Eggs” — a fouregg omelet containing two chopped hardcooked and six whole poached eggs The Industrial Egg... fascination of Europeans and Americans with the exotic East A political opening between England and China brought specimens of previously unknown Chinese breeds, the large, showy Cochins, to the West These