Tag: eggs
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Egg rhapsody
In 1490, the famous author and publisher William Caxton wrote of a merchant sailing to France. Stranded on the coast of Kent, he tried to buy some eggs from a local woman: “And he asked specifically for eggs, and the good woman said that she spoke no French, and the merchant got angry for he…
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Go to work on an egg
Liam FarrellCrossmaglen, Ireland “I’m worried,” said Joe, “I read in the paper that more than three eggs each week increases the risk of prostate cancer.” “The lay press is uninterested in hard facts and instead prefers attention-grabbing headlines,” I explained, “a problem compounded by researchers desperately looking for headlines to beef up their grants.” “But…