The Egg in European Diet and What it Tells Us
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27906Keywords:
eggs, European Diet, ingredients, social history, food and religion, CulturalAbstract
This paper contrasts the importance of the egg in the western diet with the role it plays in Sinaean Asia, China in particular.
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