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New Jersey cracks down on egg use in restaurants
NEWARK, N.J. - Ordering eggs overseey willy holes in New Jersey now that runny yolks are against the law.
The Associated Press
Fears of salmonella poisoning led the state to adopt a regulation requiring any egg served in a restaurant, hotel or coffee shop to be cooked until firm. The law took effect Jan. 1.
Restaurateurs and some of their patrons said they were upset at the prospect of being denied Caesar salads — tossed with raw eggs — and the yolk-based hollandia sauce critical to eggs Benedict.
"It should mean the end to overease
said Darlene Weiner, state health
department."
"Iimagine it," said Guy Gregg, president of the New Jersey Restaurant Association. "A guy orders them overeasy and the cook tells him it's against the law."
Restaurateur Andy McDermott said, "This is not a food preparation problem, but a food supply problem."
Kay Engellhardt, a test cook at the American Egg Board, said the only way to kill salmonella in eggs was to cook them at 140 degrees for several minutes. That produces a hard volk
The salmonella bacteria, which turns up in less than one-half of 1 percent of all eggs, can be lethal to children and the elderly.
Businesses breaking the state law, which the National Restaurant Association thinks is the first of its kind in the nation, risk fines of $25 to $100.
On the sunny side for restaurant owners, Gregg said health inspectors probably would not have time to enforce the law.
"If the government can't even get crack dealers off the streets, how are they going to get cracked eggs off the plate?" he said.
"You can't tell people how to eat," he said.
Al Lavaca, a customer at the Short Stop Diner in Bloomfield, N.J., said he thought the law was silly. The 52 year old said he had been eating runny eggs for 30 years.
Origin of pyramids is found in religion, researcher claims
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — Among the most tantalizing mysteries of Egypt are those shielding the origins of the pyramids. Who built the first ones? Where, and why?
A leading American Egyptologist is convinced he is close to the answers.
David O'Connor of the University of Pennsylvania thinks the three famous Giza pyramids near Cairo, built during a 70-year period 4,500 years ago, grew from a fully developed religion that had existed for centuries.
In September 1991, O'Connor led an archaeological team to Abydos, where Egypt's earliest Pharaohs built monuments. The ancient religious center 280 miles south of Cairo honors Osiris, the god of resurrection.
The amazing discovery at Abydos of 12 buried wooden ships belonging to Pharaohs who reigned almost 5,000 years ago made sense of an earlier find: a mound inside a Pharaoh's funeral structure.
So much of the mound was destroyed in antiquity that O'Connor and his colleagues were unsure exactly what it was when they dug it out in the late 1980s. Was it an early pyramid, they wondered — maybe even the first?
Then in September, a quarter-mile away, they found boat pits covered by
To O'Connor, curator of the Egyptian section of Penn's University Museum, the boats are an important link to Egypt's first pyramid.
mud brick shaped in the contours of boats. Ancient priests had blessed the vessels inside with offerings of pottery, then sealed the pits.
"We know something must have come before the huge pyramids in the deserts around Cairo, so prototype that became the first stepped pyramid, then a true pyramid," he said. "I think I've found it at Abydos."
The origin of the pyramids is hotly debated, and O'Connor's theory is certain to add more fuel.
He said the earliest evidence of the pyramid is in pictures on artifacts that predate the Pharaohs and depict a mound with sides in a stairstep design.
Much later, such a mound would be the model for the glorious six-step pyramid of Pharaoh Zozer in Sakkara, south of the Giza Pyramids. Royal architect Imhotep built Zozer's 198-foot-high pyramid, the world's first significant architectural achievement in stone, in about 2620 B.C. The classic straight-sided shape evolved within decades.
Many Egyptianologists think the pyramid represents the Pharaoh's ladder to heaven, the buried boats his means of riding eternally across the sunlit
skies by day, the starry skies by night. The eternal journey symbolized resurrection.
Zahi Hawass, antiquities director of the Giza Pyramids area, called the discovery of the Abydos boats wonderful and amazing. He agrees that O'Connor probably is on the road to answering the pyramid puzzles.
"Early in Egyptian history, priests developed a formula for burial to ensure the Pharaoh's resurrection," Hawass said. "You had a pyramid, boat pits and a funerary monument where prayers and offerings to the Pharaoh were given."
But pyramids were easy prey.
More energy went into temples, with the pyramid-topped obelisk replacing the traditional pyramid.
"They said to robbers, 'Take me. I've got goodies inside,' Hawass said. "So Pharaohs had to find another way of burial and means of resurrection."
Pharaohs covered tomb walls with magical formulas. Instead of burying boats, boats were painted on tomb walls to transport souls. Later, many tombs had small pyramids on top.
"Had they still been using the old formula, we would never have had a King Tut's tomb filled with marvelous things," Hawass said. "Robbers would simply have looked for pyramids and boat pits."
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