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Nabokovian eggs
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Ludger Tolksdorf writes:
According to Eigensinnige Ansichten (Vol. 21 of Nabokov's collected
works in German, edited by Dieter E. Zimmer), "Eggs à la Nabocoque" was
written on November 18, 1972, apparently in response to a request by
Maxime de la Falaise (McKendry), who did a cooking column for Vogue; her
Seven Centuries Cookbook was published by MacGraw-Hill in 1973. The
recipe was first published in Harper's Magazine in September 1999, page
38.
Steve McCann schrieb:
>
> Below is a recipe for eggs the way Nabokov supposedly liked them
> cooked, but I wish they would have cited a source. Does anyone know?
>
> -s
>
> http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eggs_a_la_nabocoque
>
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>
>
> A recipe for boiled eggs Vladimir Nabokov wrote in 1972, after he had
> moved to the Montreux Palace Hotel in Switzerland, where he would stay
> until his death.
>
> Boil water in a saucepan (bubbles mean it is boiling!). Take two
> eggs (for one person) out of the refrigerator. Hold them under the
> hot tap water to make them ready for what awaits them.
>
> Place each in a pan, one after the other, and let them slip
> soundlessly into the (boiling) water. Consult your wristwatch.
> Stand over them with a spoon preventing them (they are apt to
> roll) from knocking against the damned side of the pan.
>
> If, however, an egg cracks in the water (now bubbling like mad)
> and starts to disgorge a cloud of white stuff like a medium in an
> oldfashioned seance, fish it out and throw it away. Take another
> and be more careful.
>
> After 200 seconds have passed, or, say, 240 (taking interruptions
> into account), start scooping the eggs out. Place them, round end
> up, in two egg cups. With a small spoon tap-tap in a circle and
> then pry open the lid of the shell. Have some salt and buttered
> bread (white) ready. Eat.
>
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According to Eigensinnige Ansichten (Vol. 21 of Nabokov's collected
works in German, edited by Dieter E. Zimmer), "Eggs à la Nabocoque" was
written on November 18, 1972, apparently in response to a request by
Maxime de la Falaise (McKendry), who did a cooking column for Vogue; her
Seven Centuries Cookbook was published by MacGraw-Hill in 1973. The
recipe was first published in Harper's Magazine in September 1999, page
38.
Steve McCann schrieb:
>
> Below is a recipe for eggs the way Nabokov supposedly liked them
> cooked, but I wish they would have cited a source. Does anyone know?
>
> -s
>
> http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eggs_a_la_nabocoque
>
<https://messaging.umt.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eggs_a_la_nabocoque>
>
>
> A recipe for boiled eggs Vladimir Nabokov wrote in 1972, after he had
> moved to the Montreux Palace Hotel in Switzerland, where he would stay
> until his death.
>
> Boil water in a saucepan (bubbles mean it is boiling!). Take two
> eggs (for one person) out of the refrigerator. Hold them under the
> hot tap water to make them ready for what awaits them.
>
> Place each in a pan, one after the other, and let them slip
> soundlessly into the (boiling) water. Consult your wristwatch.
> Stand over them with a spoon preventing them (they are apt to
> roll) from knocking against the damned side of the pan.
>
> If, however, an egg cracks in the water (now bubbling like mad)
> and starts to disgorge a cloud of white stuff like a medium in an
> oldfashioned seance, fish it out and throw it away. Take another
> and be more careful.
>
> After 200 seconds have passed, or, say, 240 (taking interruptions
> into account), start scooping the eggs out. Place them, round end
> up, in two egg cups. With a small spoon tap-tap in a circle and
> then pry open the lid of the shell. Have some salt and buttered
> bread (white) ready. Eat.
>
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