Whats Cooking in That Egg Spoon? A Bite-Size Culture War
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'In the great food culture wars of the 21st century, the egg-spoon skirmishes may one day be remembered as pivotal.
Recent conflicts over this long-handled cooking tool have fostered a new social-media meme, a fresh front in the #MeToo movement and a handcrafted version that costs $250, not to mention new volleys lobbed by Alice Waters and Anthony Bourdain.
But every war is steeped in history. The first egg-spoon dust-up occurred in 2009, after Ms. Waters, the spiritual mother of all that is organic and sustainable, cooked Lesley Stahl an egg in an iron spoon she held over a fire in her Berkeley, Calif., kitchen for a segment of “60 Minutes.”
Ms. Waters had acquired the spoon after she saw one in William Rubel’s book “The Magic of Fire: Hearth Cooking: One Hundred Recipes for the Fireplace or Campfire,” and asked the San Francisco master blacksmith Angelo Garro to make her one.
“I liked that feeling of watching it and holding it,” Ms. Waters said in a recent interview. “It’s not like cooking it in a pan. You just feel like you’re really in charge of it. It’s so elemental. It’s really primitive, in a way.”'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/dining/alice-waters-egg-spoon-me-too-movement.html?
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