Chickens on the Family Farm (Bertelsen Family Photograph)
Cooks cook eggs in a plethora of ways. And vendors sell eggs in a myriad of ways.
The following photo essay celebrates the ingenuity of egg vendors across the globe. Egg storage and preservation methods vary.
Jerusalem
Morocco (Photo credit: Colin Nederkoorn)
Marrakech, Morocco
Managua, Nicaragua
Xizhou, China (Photo credit: Astrid Berglund)
Hong Kong, "1000-Year-Old" Eggs
Salted Eggs, Manila, Philippines
Cambodia (Photo credit: McKay Savage)
Hanoi, Vietnam (Photo credit: Michael Foley)
Bundi, India
Sierra Leone (Photo credit: Adam Cohn)
Haut-de-Seine, France
USA, Farmers Market (Photo credit: La Grande Farmers' Market)
New York City (Photo credit: Adam Kuban)
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Western ways of egg merchandising seems a lot less creative than the rest of the world.
The Nicaraguan picture is my favorite.
Very creative, isn’t it? Very sustainable, too. We can learn a lot from other cultures, no matter what our original culture might be.