70 – The Egg Wars

The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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A hidden Gold Rush kitchen when food was scarce and men died for eggs… We travel out to the forbidding Farallon Islands, 27 miles outside San Francisco’s Golden Gate, home to the largest seabird colony in the United States, where in the 1850s egg hunters gathered over 3 million eggs, nearly stripping the island bare, to feed the ever-growing migration of newcomers lured by the Gold Rush.

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1:15.0	When the egg pickers went in for the first time they would smash every egg that way they could be assured that the next day when they return every egg gathered would be fresh.
1:31.0	The kitchen sisters present the egg wars. The Kitchin'Ickors The A-Cores.
1:35.0	The Farallon Islands are probably the most forbidding piece of real estate to be found within the city limits of any city in the world.
1:47.0	My name is Gary Kamea, journalist and author.
1:52.0	The Fairlands are part of San Francisco, but they're 28 miles outside the
1:57.8	Golden Gate in extremely turbulent, dangerous seas.
2:03.9	They rise right up out of the ocean
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