text: Give French cooks a couple of eggs and they won 't just boil them , fry them , or make an omelette ( all of which they 're quite prepared to do superlatively ) ' they feel obliged to produce a delicate souffl ? ? or a rich hollandaise sauce that makes an egg proud to be an egg .
  
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  French cooks are prepared to go above and beyond in their egg preparations .