Greetings, readers, and welcome to our first post!
The book came out on May 3, 2008 and we are keeping our publishing partner Collective Copies mighty busy trying to keep up with demand. So far, we've sold over 100 copies and are getting great feedback from our readers. We are glad. This is the book we wish we'd been given fresh out of college and wet behind the ears.
A word about eggs: our friend Gay Daly wrote a blurb for the back of the book which says, A friend of mine once said, “In college I studied Shakespeare, calculus, molecular biology. What I really wish I had learned was: How long do eggs keep in the refrigerator?” How to be an Adult is packed with information required to make it in the real world where a person needs to rent an apartment, vote, set up a 401(K) and buy those eggs. If you know anyone who is graduating soon, buy them a copy of this book. It might be more useful than a car.
However, we neglected to include this important information in our first edition. So how do you know if an egg is okay to eat? Katryna says:
Fill a pot with water. Put the questionable egg(s) in. If they float to the top, throw them out! If they turn on their ends, eat them immediately and throw out the next day. If they stay placidly on the bottom, they're good for weeks!
More to come--please stay tuned!
Love, Nerissa and Katryna
About This Blog
- Nerissa Nields
- Eco-Friendly, Artsy, Western Massachusetts
- Musician, writer, life coach, wife, mother, lover of God, good books, some dogs, yoga, fresh local foods and her family.
5 comments:
If the eggs turn on their ends, you can also hard-boil them.
Yay for the new book! I am going to buy a copy for my soon-to-be-30 slacker brother, who is still living chez parents.
I want to give this as a Graduation gift - where can I pick up a copy in person (preferably today or tomorrow!)
Broadside Books
River Valley Market
Collective Copies
Williamstown Co-op
Cummington Creamery
Cup & Top
A Child's Garden
www.Nields.com
A tip from the ocean-crossing sailors in my family:
Eggs that have never been refrigerated will last for months without refrigeration - they keep best if you turn them once a day (just turn the whole box upside-down, as long as it has the little egg-indentations on both sides).
hugs,
dorothy h.
I was in the middle of making cookies for a friend's good-bye party tomorrow when I realized the eggs in my fridge were pretty old. I looked up the egg tip, and they're still good! The cookies are saved!
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