Free-range production now looks to have the potential to reverse the sharp decline in local egg production.

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Customers hand over well-used egg cartons to be filled at the local store, or unscrew the lid of their olive jar, washed and ready to receive the next lot.

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The operator of Taco Bell and KFC restaurant chains has made its Pizza Hut chain into a nice restaurant in the country, deemed by some contemporary Chinese to be a great place for a first date, while introducing products such as fried dough sticks, egg tarts and shrimp burgers to suit local tastes.

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Today, it is as much an accepted part of a Bogota Sunday as a tamale (a local favourite of rice, chicken, pork, egg and vegetables wrapped in a palm leaf) for breakfast.

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After three martinis my friend switches to a local brew of Budweiser, salt and a hard-boiled egg plopped in a glass.

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In England, Bath's Theatre Royal took opinions into consideration from a panel of local schoolchildren when designing their new children's theatre, The Egg.

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Stroll the boutiques of downtown Truckee, then grab dinner and jazz at Moody's Bistro and Lounge, which lives by local, seasonal ingredients, whether it's a Shaw Family Farm egg, a Durham Ranch steak, or Heidi Watanabe's tomatoes.

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