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In this innovative cookbook, James Beard award-winning author Michael Ruhlman explains why the egg is the key to the craft of cooking. For culinary visionary Michael Ruhlman, the question is not whether the chicken or the egg came first, it's how anything could be accomplished in the kitchen without the magic of the common egg. He starts with perfect poached and scrambled eggs and builds up to brioche and Italian meringue. Along the way readers learn...

Ollie is an egg that does not want to hatch until Gossie and Gertie sit on him and use reverse psychology.

A dragon's egg rolls out of its nest in a cave, continuing along a road, past a castle, and through a town, where it bumps against a rock and cracks.

When a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton, the elephant, to sit on her egg--which he does through all sorts of hazards until he is rewarded for doing what he said he would.

When two Smurfs stumble upon a magic egg that makes all their wishes come true, the Smurfs are soon wishing for all sorts of zany things, compelling Papa Smurf to take control of the magic egg before chaos overtakes Smurf Village.

Thumper and his friends find a blue robin's egg and try to protect and entertain it until Trixie, Ria, and Tessie can find its mother.

Max finds and cares for an egg and, although what emerges is not the dinosaur he had hoped for, he learns that a chicken can be a good friend--and dancer.

"A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs-and the wildlife detective determined to stop him"--