'Don’t you just love the way a truly fresh egg looks in a bowl after you crack it? The yolk is so perfectly rounded and the whites whip up into the fluffiest meringue!
Fresh eggs go with the territory when you purchase from a local farm. Good quality, local eggs sell quickly enough that there isn’t any need for the tricks the egg industry uses to prolong egg freshness such as partial freezing and cold storage for weeks at a time before they hit your supermarket shelf.
Even if you buy organic eggs from Whole Foods or other healthfood store, it is possible to get old eggs. Old eggs not only don’t taste as good, in my opinion, but they also don’t poach nicely into that perfect egg shape that sits so pretty on top of a slice of toast or English muffin.'
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