Egg

ISBN-13: 9781501322853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 168 str.

USA) Dr. Nicole Walker (Northern Arizona University

Opis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange object-strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker's Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so that reproductive science and gustatory habits are considered alongside one another, and personal narrative and broad swaths of natural history jostle, like yolk and albumen. Mapping curious eggs across times, scales, and spaces, Egg draws together surprising perspectives on this common object-egg as food, as art object, as metaphor and feminist symbol, as cultural icon.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Recenzje

Walker teaches creative writing at a Northern Arizona University, and I imagine she is very good at it. Her interest in other people and their lives holds the book together. Her specific remit, the egg, provides her with a good deal of scope and she enthusiastically takes her readers along for the ride . Much within the lovely covers is delightful. FoodAnthropology

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsDear EggWhy We Break the Things We Love the MostRotten EggsThe Egg Came FirstExperiment with Eggs by Making a Hollandaise in the Time of Global WarmingHow to Cook a PlanetSpoonsThe Glue That Holds Us TogetherAll the Eggs in IsraelAll the Eggs in UkraineAll the Eggs in KoreaAll the Eggs in ChinaEggs in UtahMohawkSo Many Eggs, One Small BasketWhich Came First? Chicken Porn Can Help You Make Up Your Mind About EggsBreaking a Few EggsBlue Planet, Blue OmeletHumpty Dumpty, RevisedDo Eggs Bring Skunks?Would You Eat a Red Speckled Egg?The Incredible, Edible EggWhat Is a Cloaca?A Million Year Old EggA Lot of Pressure on One EggSidewalk Cooking EggsA Science Fair Every YearThe Sex Lives of FishThe Present Was an Egg Laid by the Past That Had the Future Inside Its Shell-Zora Neale HurstonRecipe for an Already-Cracked Egg

O autorze

Nicole Walker is the author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (2021) Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) and the collaborative collection The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet. (2019). She has previously published the nonfiction collections Where the Tiny Things Are (2017), Egg (2017), Micrograms (2016), Quench Your Thirst with Salt (2013), and a book of poems, This Noisy Egg (2010). She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story (2019) with Sean Prentiss and Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction (2013) with Margot Singer. She is the co-president of NonfictioNOW and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and a noted author in Best American Essays. Her work has been most recently published in the New York Times, Longreads, and Ploughshares, among other places. She teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ and serves as the Crux Series Editor for University of Georgia Press.