Sonoma Farmer's Market

“On the park’s western side….there was the Ostrich Guy, an older white-bearded man in a white T-shirt and a hat with ostrich feathers. He sold frozen cuts of ostrich meat from his free-range ranch…He also sold fresh ostrich eggs for twelve dollars each. The eggs were the size of footballs. They looked as though they were laid by dinosaurs. There were two ways to cook an ostrich egg, the farmer said. You could hard-boil it, which took about three or four hours given its size, or you could panfry it up in a scramble or omelet and that way it cooked about as quickly as the usual diminutive chicken eggs. The catch was that one ostrich egg equaled something like four dozen chicken eggs…” Tale of Two Valleys, Alan Deutschman (I’m on page 47).