The new 'egg experience' !
When it comes to buying and eating eggs, I distinctly remember as a kid the only thing my dad could say to our good old grocery store owner is to give us the biggest eggs out of the lot. The shopkeeper used to then select the largest eggs often dotted with specks of dirt and place them tenderly in the transparent polythene bags. Once back home these cherry picked eggs were carefully placed one by one in our fridge's egg tray by my dad, making sure they were safely secured. I happily grew up eating omlettes made out of these dull white eggs, blissfully unaware about how and where the mommy hens were raised. I had no inkling of the fact if they were caged and cooped up in small cages or bred in open farms. This was all until a visit to a nearby Whole Foods store in United States introduced me to organic green pasture raised 'humane' eggs. Welcome to the world of GMO free eggs ( Genetically modified Organism ) and the cage free standard ! I was ...