EPISODE · Aug 15, 2016 · 6 MIN
The Egg Wars
from The Kitchen Sisters · host The Kitchen Sisters
You've heard of the San Francisco gold rush. But that rush spurred another, lesser-known event: the egg rush. The legions of miners who swept into the region in the 1850s hoping to strike gold all had to be fed. And they needed protein to stay strong. But when food shortages hit, wily entrepreneurs looked for eggs in an unlikely source: the Farallon Islands.
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