Scrambled, boiled, poached or fried.
No matter how you cook them, Amélie Nothomb loves eggs.
So much so that she praised it in the France Inter morning show on Thursday March 21.
“I have an inconsiderate passion for eggs,” the Belgian novelist exclaimed on the occasion of her carte blanche.
For more than 2 and a half minutes, the writer recounted in detail how she liked to eat her favorite food.
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9 to 10 eggs per day
“I have such a passion for eggs that they never disgust me, I can eat them absolutely without hunger,” declared the author of
Psychopompe
(Albin Michel, 2023).
However, Amélie Nothomb knows the limits of excessive consumption of food.
“I was around 25 years old, I decided that I was going to eat only eggs,” she remembers in the show.
For a week, I ate almost only eggs, that was 9-10 eggs per day.”
After several days, red patches appeared on her face warning her of excessive ingestion.
And for good reason, if the food is nutritious, it is still advisable to limit yourself to “one or two eggs per day”, taught us Maëla Le Borgne, dietician and nutritionist in a previous article.
Gastronomy moment
Amélie Nothomb loves eggs and her fans know it.
So much so that at signing sessions, she is regularly offered fresh eggs, straight from their henhouses.
“It’s a great joy, I love leaving my book signings with several egg boxes, several egg dishes,” she said.
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During a recent meeting organized by the novelist in Chalon-sur-Saône, a reader brought her 6 fresh eggs from Bresse, among the “best in the world”, according to her.
Barely back home, Amélie Nothomb “gobbles” one.
“Do you know how to swallow an egg?” she asks Léa Salamé and Nicolas Demorand, morning hosts.
Here's how to do it: make a small hole with a nail at the top of the egg, place it over his mouth, make another hole on the other side of the egg, then "suck like crazy" ... “You have to mix everything in your mouth,” adds the fine gourmet for what she describes as “a very, very great gastronomic moment of [her] life.”