Jezebel: Eggs

Cookie Dough: The Newest Scary Food

Cassie Murdoch — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:05:00 EST

Who among us has not turned to prepackaged cookie dough for comfort during some dark or cozy moment in our lives? It's so creamy and convenient and soothing to the soul. Sure, we know it isn't exactly good for us, but it's always seemed relatively harmless. Well, it turns out our old food friend can actually be a pretty dangerous enemy. A study has confirmed that raw Nestlé Toll House cookie dough was responsible for making 77 people sick during an E. coli outbreak in 2009. More »

Do Egg Donors Lie?

Jenna Marotta — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:10:00 EST

On a recent Tuesday evening, I applied to be an egg donor. "Help create a family," read the two-inch-square ad ripped from the Chicago Reader's classifieds. "$7,000 to all healthy women to be anonymous egg donors." I have textbook-good blood pressure. I've been hospitalized just once, for a few hours, when I had a tonsillectomy. And I'm on the low end of the target 21 to 28 age range. I completed a short online questionnaire quite pleased with myself. I'd taken a practical step toward monetary independence, so elusive to my demographic during this recession. A mostly selfish act –- taken to help silence student debt collectors -– could result in selfless consequences. Maybe I could give a couple the family they desire. I have healthy eggs but no upcoming plans to use them –- why waste a good thing? More »

The Egg In Your Egg McMuffin Came From Old McNasty's Farm

Whitney Jefferson — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:40:00 EST

Bad news about America's favorite breakfast sandwich: The eggs in your Egg McMuffin could be a threat to your health. After some urging from the government, McDonalds has cut ties with Sparboe Farms, one of its major egg suppliers, because the conditions in the farm were so horrific they could no longer guarantee the "fresh, grade A eggs" they're supposedly serving. More »

Scientists Make Stem Cells From Human Eggs

Anna North — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:30:00 EDT

In a step forward in stem cell research, scientists have created the cells by combining a human egg with skin-cell DNA. However, this doesn't eliminate the need for more controversial embryonic stem cell research. More »

How To Make A Heart-Shaped Egg

Anna North — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:15:00 EDT

Making your beloved a heart-shaped hardboiled egg is significantly less romantic than, say, giving her red roses. It also might be a rather unsubtle way of saying it's time to reproduce. Still, these eggs are pretty cute. You could also just stop at step four, and give your love a hardboiled butt. More »

ShamWow Guy Accused Of Pressuring Employee For Sex, Eggs

Anna North — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:45:00 EDT

Vince Shlomi, the infomercial star responsible for the ShamWow and SlapChop, is being sued by a former assistant who says he pressured her to have a relationship with him — and also offered to buy her eggs. More »

Study Says Cougars Aren't Real

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:30:00 EDT

A psychology researcher from the University of Wales Institute recently conducted a study on what women want and shockingly, it's not younger men. After examining 22,400 ads on dating websites, he concluded that women really want older men.

An Eggcellent Short Film Starring Faye Dunaway

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:40:00 EDT

You'll laugh, you'll cry. It's better than Avatar. [The WoW Report] More »

Hen Beats Own Recent "World's-Largest-Egg" Record

Sadie Stein — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:45:00 EDT

After laying a 9" egg that weighed in 5.75 ounces, Essex's 6-month-old Harriet the Hen now holds the number 1 and 2 spots in the record books. Harriet is reportedly limping, but is expected to make a full recovery. [ExpressUK] More »

Farmers Squawk Back At Chicken Cruelty Videos

Anna North — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:30:00 EDT

The Humane Society of the United States has released some damning footage of egg farms, but farmers' organizations are firing back, claiming the group wants "to remove meat from our dinner tables [...] and eventually — pets from our families." More »

Brits Raffle Off Donor Eggs, Use United States As Justification

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:20:00 EDT

A fertility clinic in London is offering a free human egg this week to promote a "baby profiling" service. The lucky winner will get to chose an egg based on the donor's profession, hair color, and race. More »

For The Last Time: Donating Your Eggs Is Not "Easy Money"

Sadie Stein — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:20:00 EST

As one clinic worker tells Nerve: "We're seeing people who might not otherwise do this but for their economic condition." More »

New Genetic Test Could Spot Infertility Before It Starts

Anna North — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST

A new genetic test could predict whether women are at risk of early ovarian aging — and therefore reduced fertility — while they're still young enough to plan ahead. More »

Child's Play: Time For Luh-unch!

Sadie Stein — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:20:00 EDT

The egg can be one of your very best friends, as Julia shows us in this vintage French Chef from 1964 (Mad Men time!), which features "eggs for elegance." More »

Egg Freezing: A Good Backup, Or "Harmful To Feminism"?

Anna North — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:20:00 EDT

Rachel Lehmann-Haupt writes in this week's Newsweek of her decision to freeze her eggs — and of critics who say the practice is bad for women. More »

Research Suggests Women May Produce Eggs As Adults

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:30:00 EDT

Scientists have found evidence that adult women have stem cells in their ovaries that let them generate more eggs, challenging the long-standing belief that women are born with a fixed number of ova. More »

Gwen Stefani: Green Eggs & __________

Anna Holmes — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:15:00 EDT

[Los Angeles, April 12. Image via INF]

Magical Mystery: Solved!

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:45:00 EDT

For sale, on Etsy: one dissected Easter Bunny. Seller says, "Apparently the Easter Bunny was killed in a tragic accident at a Peep factory and he donated his body to science." Fun and educational. [BoingBoing] More »

Disney Eggs: They're Eggs. By Disney.

Sadie Stein — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:00:00 EST

We have rarely been as confused or disturbed by anything in our lives as we are by the new "Disney Eggs," which we discovered via a commercial break during the fourth hour of Today. More »

American Egg Donors Report Negative Post-Procedure Feelings

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST

A new study reports that though two-thirds of egg donors are satisfied with their experience, 14 percent reported negative feelings — and 12% reported mixed ones — following their procedures. More »

All Your Eggs In One Breakfast

Maria — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:45:00 EDT

Good news for those of you who love eating eggs with your morning breakfast: A new study has shown that adults who ate two eggs for breakfast, as part of a low-calorie meal, lost 65% more weight and reported higher energy levels than those who ate a bagel-based, low-calorie breakfast. The researchers also found that baseline cholesterol blood levels in the subjects did not increase compared to the bagel-breakfasters. Why are eggs so good at helping people loose weight? Eggs are a high-quality protein so they can keep your energy up and your cravings down. Although, it is important to note that a lot of the egg's protein and benefits come from the yolk, so you have to eat the entire egg. No egg-white omelets for you! [Eureka Alert] More »

Ice, Ice, Baby

Anna Holmes — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:45:00 EDT

An unintentionally-hilarious passage from the May 2008 Marie Claire story "Hope In A Tank", about a woman (Sarah Elizabeth Richards, left) who froze her eggs: "After weeks of research, I found my way to Reproductive Medicine Associates (RMA), a posh fertility clinic...The procedure is still so new that only about 500 babies have been born through thawed eggs. I liked the fact that RMA had produced at least some babies; according to a recent study, they had gotten three of four clients pregnant. And part of me liked that the clinic was located on Madison Avenue, near excellent shopping and gelato." [Marie Claire] More »

MLK Flip-Flopper John McCain Gets Booed In Memphis

mcarpentier — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:30:00 EDT

The McCain strategist who thought it was a brilliant idea to have him give a speech at the Lorraine Motel on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination to apologize for having voted against MLK Day should probably not keep his job. [CBS News]

Eggs: The Best Things Anyone Ever Pulled Out Of An Ass

Moe — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:30:00 EDT

Another morning, another story about how people should eat breakfast making us hungry to eat another breakfast because, duh, we're bloggers, of course we eat breakfast. (Right? Don't we? Don't worry; I asked!) Anyway, the important part: market forces are threatening to put this very most cherished tradition under attack! The price of eggs is skyrocketing! And Starbucks, the purveyor of roughly 2/7 of my weekly breakfasts is pulling breakfast sandwiches from its menu in response to the recession. I think eggs are a "Giffen good," which is an economic term for those commodities you don't appreciate until they get more expensive. Anna, for instance, eats egg white sandwiches every day but says thinking about the eggs "grosses [her] out." Just wait until you're forced to eat them 20 meals a week, love! So: I am going to get a head start on this and appreciate eggs in advance. Me, I eat some sort of egg sandwich every single day. This habit began, as so many do, with a hangover, and like so many other hangover-related rituals, it became habit. I used to worry it would raise my cholesterol level. More »

The Jezebel Reader: Profile Of A Bleeding-Heart, Bleeding-Sexed, Socially-Conscious Clive Owen-Worshiping Slob

Jessica — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:30:15 EST

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