Cup Custards

Egg yolks are small miracles: so perky, so bright, such a tight pack of nutrition.

And so very fragile. Chickens raised in industrial farms, the birds that don't have room to turn around, the ones whose beaks are snipped to keep them from destroying each other in their nervous frenzy--those chickens produce icky eggs. In fact, their yolks are not yellow. They're mostly gray. Because the chickens don't eat their usual nutrient rich diet of seeds, grubs, and insects.

Never had a gray yolk? That's because the chickens are also fed dye to make their yolks yellow.

Hardly real food, I'd say. Mostly fake.

Which is too bad. Because inferior, gray, tasteless yolks deprive us all of the best cup custards. Which are one of life's better treasures (and easier desserts).

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