In his 1st-century work Natural History, the Roman author Pliny the Elder included a recipe for people looking to give up drinking. Eating owl eggs that have been soaked in wine for three days, he wrote, provides “a distaste for that liquor.”

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10 Incredible Uses for Eggs

Reader, consider the egg. It can be poached, scrambled, scotched, roasted, hard-boiled, devilled, pickled, and soft-boiled, all by itself. It can be part of a larger whole: a frittata, an omelette, a salad, benedict, with potatoes, bacon, cheese, green peppers, tabasco, paprika, salt, and pepper.