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EGGS | UPPERCRUST FOOD

Eggcellent

All Season Food

Eggs have seen their ups and downs through the
years. Eat, don’t eat − good for health, bad for health
− too high in cholesterol, yolks a no-no, white's fine...
We say, eggs are eggcellent, please eat them. It’s an
offering from nature, like no other

Text & Photographs: Farzana Contractor

nough cannot be said about the there are other more sophisticated and
goodness of eggs. Not just about its expensive eggs around, too, starting with
Enutritive value but also its versatility, caviar, but that’s merely to garnish, or
its applicability, its usefulness. They work impress! Then there are quail eggs, for
for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Starters or celebratory occasions or when you can
main course! The hundreds of recipes that actually source some, or even goose, duck,
exist the world over, make it an ingredient of turkey and the exotic ostrich eggs, which
far more importance than what is attributed are the largest bird eggs, weighing 400
to it. Think about it, we do take the humble gms, loaded with among other goodness,
chicken egg for granted, don’t we? the omega-3 fatty acids.
As an ingredient, it is one of the most But let’s come back to regular chicken
inexpensive foods available to us. Costs eggs, without which life would be bleak,
just Rs. 6 apiece, for God’s sake! Of course at least for those who do eat eggs and

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