Toops, Diane

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In Eggs, Diane Toops offers a fascinating tour of egg history and lore, looking at how the eggs significance has represented the preoccupations of the cultures that consume it.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? In Hindu scripture, the world began as an egg. Laid by a swan floating on the waters of chaos, after a year the egg split into silver and gold halves, with the silver becoming the earth and the gold transforming into the sky. Throughout …