The Secret Ingredient: or How to Cook a Perfect 3-Minute Egg in Twenty Minutes

When Shelley Leroux first visited her fiancé’s parents, they were eating hare. After her future father-in-law took one bite, he said to his wife (while still holding his knife and fork), “I wanted a Saskatchewan hare. This is an Alberta hare.” While Leroux wondered if she should marry this picky man’s son out of fear he would be the same, she had no idea she would soon learn how one man distinguished the difference between two hares—simply through taste. And so began Leroux’s foray into the...