Their latest addition, preserved duck eggs, is an acquired taste. According to Tasting Table, the retailer is now offering cases of “century eggs,” a delicacy that originated in China.

Supposedly, this dish originated 500 years ago, when a rural Chinese farmer found organically preserved duck eggs in a pool of limewater (also known as calcium hydroxide), which helps explain why ...

Essentially, these are preserved eggs typically made using clay, ash, salt, quicklime, and rice hulls. Century eggs can be prepared with duck, quail, or chicken eggs, and can take weeks or months ...

Salted eggs were almost certainly created as a way to preserve an abundance of eggs to eat when times were leaner. The best ones are duck eggs, because they are larger and have a richer ...