I’ve just finished reading William Gibson’s new novel, Spook Country, and I really enjoyed it. More importantly, though, there was a bit about eggs that attracted my attention:

“Anabaptists,” Milgram corrected. “These are really delicious scrambled eggs.”

“I use water, rather than butter,” she said. ‘’The pan is a little more trouble to clean, but I prefer them that way. Anabaptists?”

I’m not necessarily one to take cooking tips from science fiction novels (despite the surprisingly large number of food tips that dot the pages of the genre), but I thought I’d give it a try. I just made scrambled eggs with 1T of water substituted for 1T of butter and I have to say they were the best scrambled eggs I’ve ever made. In addition to being less greasy, they were also lighter and the seemed to be firmer. The pan was a bit more of a mess, but not in any dangerous way.

Overall, I wonder if we should start looking more to science fiction for cooking tips, beyond just taking inspiration from the futurism aesthetic for experimental cooking.