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The Chicken or the Egg? 5. To Market, To Market
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, MoroccoManagua, NicaraguaXizhou, China (Photo credit: Astrid Berglund)Hong Kong, "1000-Year-Old" EggsSalted Eggs, Manila, PhilippinesCambodia (Photo credit: McKay Savage)Hanoi, Vietnam (Photo credit: Michael Foley)
Bundi, IndiaSierra Leone (Photo credit: Adam Cohn)Haut-de-Seine, FranceUSA, Farmers Market (Photo credit: La Grande Farmers' Market)New York City (Photo credit: Adam Kuban)
I object to eating eggs, not for a moral or political reason, but because they make me vom a bit. Probably has something to do with the fact that, under different circumstance, the eggy could have been a little birdy, with a beak and everything. Also, seems like eating eggs would dent your reproductive karma.
This is great! I love when people take pictures and show me a new way to look at objects or places that I see every day. I don’t care much for eggs but this made me appreciate them as beautiful and an interesting way to look at cultural variations. Thanks for the fresh perspective.
I saw your photo sketch on eggs and thought I need to find and send you my photo of an egg-vending machine from when I lived in Japan. I was quite surprised to see you could walk down the street and buy eggs from an outside vending machine. But probably if you did a google image search you could find one online!
Thank you to all the people who’ve posted such positive comments on the “Chicken or the Egg” posts. And a huge thank you to WordPress.com for making the Bertelsen family chickens one of the posts of the day on October 16, 2009!
Very cool. It’s amazing how the whole world depends on basically the exact same things for survival. I guess I knew how important eggs are, but never really thought about it before today. Thanks! :)
The first thought that stroke me was “what a nice way to demonstrate the versatility of our world through… eggs!” )))) Different colors, sizes and styles of eggs made reminded me how big and diverse this world is ))) And made me crave not exactly for an omelet, but to learn more about the countries )))
So, the chicken comes before the eggs … according to the picture arrangement, I mean. Really nice pictures – like Harris said “Egg-sellent” – I like them!
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Very creative, isn’t it? Very sustainable, too. We can learn a lot from other cultures, no matter what our original culture might be.
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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.
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I object to eating eggs, not for a moral or political reason, but because they make me vom a bit. Probably has something to do with the fact that, under different circumstance, the eggy could have been a little birdy, with a beak and everything. Also, seems like eating eggs would dent your reproductive karma.
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This is great! I love when people take pictures and show me a new way to look at objects or places that I see every day. I don’t care much for eggs but this made me appreciate them as beautiful and an interesting way to look at cultural variations. Thanks for the fresh perspective.
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I would say the egg
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Hi Carola,
That’s an interesting one — I’ll have to ask my brother about this one, as he lives in Japan. Thanks, and good to hear from you.
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That’s a lot of eggs. =D
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I saw your photo sketch on eggs and thought I need to find and send you my photo of an egg-vending machine from when I lived in Japan. I was quite surprised to see you could walk down the street and buy eggs from an outside vending machine. But probably if you did a google image search you could find one online!
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I like my poultry.
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Thank you to all the people who’ve posted such positive comments on the “Chicken or the Egg” posts. And a huge thank you to WordPress.com for making the Bertelsen family chickens one of the posts of the day on October 16, 2009!
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A sensitive and very interesting approaching of the universality behind cultural differences.
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Very nice photos and different types of eggs
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Very cool. It’s amazing how the whole world depends on basically the exact same things for survival. I guess I knew how important eggs are, but never really thought about it before today. Thanks! :)
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The first thought that stroke me was “what a nice way to demonstrate the versatility of our world through… eggs!” )))) Different colors, sizes and styles of eggs made reminded me how big and diverse this world is ))) And made me crave not exactly for an omelet, but to learn more about the countries )))
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Does anyone know how to keep chickens from plucking each others feathers off? My chickens are half necked.
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So, the chicken comes before the eggs … according to the picture arrangement, I mean. Really nice pictures – like Harris said “Egg-sellent” – I like them!
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what exotic.
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I suddenly have a craving for an omelet…or fried chicken…whichever I can get to first. :)
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Egg-sellent. We just have a hand-painted sign at the end of the front path.
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Glad I found your blog! I think your Recipe Index and your links on Food History are great reference tools for the rest of us!
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The chickens, I assume you mean? Yes, it’s an old picture from the 50s, the color’s all faded like pics from that time tend to do. Glad you liked it!
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I like the 1st pic the best, but all of them are great.
Raven
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