A Good Egg

A Good EggSquids lay them. Auks lay them. Titwillows, tinamous and teals lay them. Even Broadway shows on Boston tryouts, all too often, lay them. But mainly chickens, by the millions, lay them. Since the first pecking order was established in the jungles of prehistoric India, the lowly chicken egg – unborn progeny of the most ridiculous of barnyard creatures – has become man's most prodigal delicacy. As eggs go, it is a rather prosaic creation – lacking the monumentality of the ostrich egg, the...