New Stack, New Blog, Preserved Eggs

I’ve put together a new blog with Gatsby, which I’m quite happy with. I haven’t been able to spend as much time with React as I’d like until now and I’m enjoying being able to work with the library.

The template I started with to create this blog featured as its first post a quote from Wikipedia on the topic of salted duck eggs.

I have, for no particular reason, left the quote intact.

A salted duck egg is a Chinese preserved food product made by soaking duck eggs in brine, or packing each egg in damp, salted charcoal. In Asian supermarkets, these eggs are sometimes sold covered in a thick layer of salted charcoal paste. The eggs may also be sold with the salted paste removed, wrapped in plastic, and vacuum packed. From the salt curing process, the salted duck eggs have a briny aroma, a gelatin-like egg white and a firm-textured, round yolk that is bright orange-red in color.