The price of eggs has long been a political symbol. In 1989, as Poland implemented free market reforms, advisers to finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz famously told their boss to watch the price of eggs closely. If farmers resumed bringing their eggs to market and prices began to drop, the economy would stabilize.
Joel Harold Tannenbaum chairs the Humanities Department at Community College of Philadelphia and occasionally finds time to publish on the history of food and food science.
