Anthropology of Food--University of Minnesota Duluth

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Eggs

(food)

Eastern
Easter

Ukrainian Easter egg
Pysanka

Chicken
Egg (food)
Egg allergy
Egg decorating
Pysanka
Egging
Eggshell
Egg white
Egg yolk
Easter egg
List of egg dishes
List of egg topics
Ovo vegetarianism
animal welfare / animal rights
Battery cage
Fish eggs
Humpty Dumpty
Category:Eggs
Category:Eggs in culture
Wikimedia Commons—Category:Eggs in art
Wikimedia Commons—Category:People with chickens

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egg
NOUN:		1 a : the hard-shelled reproductive body produced by a bird and especially by the common domestic chicken; also : its contents used as food b : an animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum together with its nutritive and protective envelopes and having the capacity to develop into a new individual capable of independent existence c : ovum 2 : something resembling an egg 3 : person, sort <a good egg> — egg·less adjective — eggy \ˈe-gē, ˈā-\ adjective — egg on one's face : a state of embarrassment or humiliation — egg·head : intellectual, highbrow
TRANSITIVE VERB:		1 : to cover with egg 2 : to pelt with eggs Date: 1833 : to incite to action —usually used with on — more at edge Date: 13th century
ADJECTIVE:
ETYMOLOGY:		Middle English egge, from Old Norse egg; akin to Old English ǣg egg, Latin ovum, Greek ōion Date: 14th century
"egg." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2010. Merriam-Webster Online. 02 April 2010 <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chicken>

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In the news . . .

Hunting for the World’s Oldest Decorated Eggs -- Past Horizons (29 April 2012)
Unsafe eggs linked to U.S. failure to act -- Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post (11 December 2010)
- Who is responsible for U.S. eggs? The answer depends on where the egg is, and in what form
Easter eggs 'may be healthy'
Easter eggs and other chocolate can be good for you, as long as you eat only small amounts, latest research suggests.

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Schematic of a chicken egg:

1. Eggshell
2. Outer membrane
3. Inner membrane
4. Chalaza
5. Exterior albumen
6. Middle albumen
7. Vitelline membrane
8. Nucleus of pander
9. Germinal disc (nucleus)
10. Yellow yolk
11. White yolk
12. Internal albumen
13. Chalaza
14. Air cell
15. Cuticula

The shape of an egg is an ovate spheroid with one end larger than the other end. The egg has cylindrical symmetry along the long axis.

Wikipedia

Books about Eggs -- The Organiclinker Bookstore
Freidberg, Susanne. "Eggs: Shell Games," Ch. 3 of FRESH: A Perishable History. Harvard Belknap, 2010.
How long it takes to boil an egg at different temperatures and altitudes-- altitude.org
To Correctly Cook Hard-Cooked (Boiled) Eggs -- What's Cooking America
Egg Miles Calculator (UK) -- Organic Linker
"Eggs in Swedish Cookery," Ch. 7 of Bringéus, Nils-Arvid. Man, Food and Milieu: A Swedish Approach to Food Ethnology. Tuckwell, 2001.
United Poultry Concerns
USDA Economic Research Service
- Animal Products
  - Poultry & Eggs

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Uovo
Tacuinum Sanitatis
(a medieval handbook on wellness)

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Old woman selling eggs.
Hendrick Bloemaert
(c. 1601, Utrecht – 1672)

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Ostrich egg (right), compared to chicken egg (left)

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