title: A Cook's Guide to Eggs
author: Alex Barker
description: Alex Barker qualified as a home economist before working in the Nestle test kitchens and the marketing department of Buitoni Foods. She then moved into magazines, including Woman's Own, where she became cookery editor. Later, at Prima Magazine, she worked in a similar role, before launching and editing Let's Cook. Her wide-ranging experience on food publications makes her a leading authority on food and she now works freelance as a food writer, also running a picture library, Food Features.
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  # **PART SIX**  
   **The School**  
  
  ## **39**
  
  The T'swa ambassador looked up at the white-jacketed serving man. "I will have
  bacon, crisp, with four large poached eggs," he said, "and muffins with butter
  and norbal. The bacon and muffins should be in quantities appropriate to four
  eggs."
  
  He poured cream in his joma then, followed by three heaping spoons of sugar,
  while Lord Beniker ordered. Beniker, when he'd finished ordering, put a hand
  on the serving man's sleeve. "And Kirt," he added, "the ambassador and I will
  need privacy; we have confidential business to discuss. We'll call if we need
  anything."
  
  "Yes, my lord." The man left for the kitchen of Beniker's large and
  comfortable apartment.
  
  "So," said Tar-Kliss, "what have you arranged? Assuming that Garlan and Wellem
  cannot defuse the situation."
  
  "Well, it isn't the sort of thing I care for, but . . . First of all, we've
  had an interesting 