ART BOOKS THE GOURMAND’S EGG

Dali’s muse. Hitchcock’s worst nightmare. The humble egg is the hero of this new picture-cum-recipe book, which takes us from a 2,500-year-old Persian carving to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Eyes and Eggs (1983) and Bobby Doherty’s Egg Cake (pictured, 2021), via asides on Lou Reed’s song Egg Cream and the ovophilic Haruki Murakami, who once said: “Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.” Taschen, £40