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A brief history of eggs

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April 21, 2009

Still eating leftover Easter eggs? Consider this Freakonomics post from a few weeks ago about the history of egg storage in America, and you’ll be grateful for refrigeration. (The post is by Susanne Freidberg, a member of a new academic breed known as the food geographer.)

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