Eggs

Yes, the Baltimore Farmers' Market is done for the season. It won't be back until April 7. But you get fresh eggs from the Hen's Nest all winter long. The New Windsor farm will be bringing cartons and cases of its brown and white eggs down to Baltimore every other week Saturday beginning Jan. 5, making three stops around the city. The first stop, from 8 a.m.-9 a.m., will be at the parking lot of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, 1400 W. Coldspring Lane. Then, the truck will head east, to 3700 Dillon St., near the Natty Boh sign, where it will park on the parking lot in front of the Push 511 crossfit gym from 9:30 a.m.-11 a.m. From noon-1 p.m., you can get Hen's Nest eggs at the Park & Ride off Rolling Road (Route 166)

Ellen Carpenter delayed marriage until she found Mr. Right, but by that time she was 38 years old, making it much more difficult to have children. After getting pregnant with the help of hormone injections, the Frederick County resident lost the baby — a girl with severe body malformations — in the first trimester. She explored other options and chose to use frozen eggs from a donor. Today, Carpenter is the mother of a rambunctious 18-month-old named Zachary. A growing number of women are turning to frozen eggs to solve their fertility problems as the controversial procedure that long raised safety concerns slowly gains acceptance.

John L. Walz, a former typesetter who later ran a Carroll County farm that produced eggs, died of cancer Sunday at his son's Mount Airy home. He was 82. John Louis Walz was born and raised in Baltimore and was a 1948 graduate of City College. A pitcher, he played for the Blue Rocks of Wilmington, Del., in the late 1940s and later with the Phillies of Terre Haute, Ind., until an arm injury ended his career, said his wife of 61 years, the former Dorothy "Dot" Ragulski. After serving in the Army for several years during the Korean War, he worked during the 1950s and 1960s as a typesetter for the Baltimore Typesetting and Composition Co. He later was a co-founder with his father of the Walz Egg Ranch in Mount Airy, where they raised chickens and furnished eggs to commercial and residential customers.

Annapolis resident Stephanie Freeman was the lucky winner of breakfast-for-two for a year at the Breakfast Shoppe. According to owner Kyle Algaze, it was Freeman's first time at the popular Severna Park restaurant. She and her husband almost didn't wait, but they decided to stay. Turns out she ordered the Breakfast Shoppe's 1 millionth egg . Anne Arundel County Sheriff Ron Bateman --stepping in for "Street Bike" Tommy Passemante -- was on hand to present the prize to Freeman, who, Algaze said, had been after her husband to go to the Breakfast Shoppe for a year.  The Breakfast Shoppe opened in its current location in June 2010.  Algaze said that the restaurant started serving on average about 8,000 eggs a week its first year.

Sometime next weekend, on Saturday, Aug 17 or Sunday, Aug. 18, the Breakfast Shoppe in Severna Park will serve egg number 1,000,000.   That's a lot of eggs. To celebrate, the Breaksfast Shoppe will be giving away prizes including Breakfast-for-2 for an entire year. "Street Bike" Tommy Passemente of  MTV's "Nitro Circus" will be at the Breakfast Shoppe with other cast members of the "Nitro Circus The Movie 3D" will be there, too. The Breakfast Shoppe opened in late June 2010 and has earned a loyal following as well as some kind words from Michael "Road Food" Stern.

Why does such nonsense as the mayor of Boston wanting to ban Chick-fil-A get such publicity ("Banned in Boston? If mayor had his way," July 27)? It's utter nonsense! One idiot trying to ruin a business. I do not understand how one person can cause such turmoil, but little did he know he has helped Chick-fil-A in a huge way! I usually never want to thank an idiot, but thanks, Mayor Thomas Menino. I have a feeling that more people than ever before will dine there. Senora McGuire, Dundalk

Kids who are allergic to foods can overcome their reactions through therapy that involves giving them increasing doses of the specific foods, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins Children's Center and other hospitals. The research adds to what doctors already know about food allergies. In this case, they used eggs for the treatment, known as oral immunotherapy. Past research involved milk and peanuts. For now, the research is still considered experimental and isn't recommended outside of a study.

Perched atop a weathered navigational marker near Rocky Point in Back River, the osprey shifted nervously, screeched and flew off as a boat full of people approached. With the raptor circling overhead, Rebecca Lazarus climbed onto the marker and peered into its nest, a tangled heap of tree branches and scraps of plastic. "She's got one chick in here," called out Lazarus, a doctoral student at the University of Maryland, College Park. The osprey had laid two eggs, but only one hatched.

The owners of Volt and Lunchbox, Bryan Voltaggio and Hilda Staples, are opening their newest restaurant on Tuesday. Housed in a former car dealership built in the 1960s, the 3,500 square-foot restaurant seats 96 diners, including counter seating for 30 and a large outdoor dining area .Family Meal will offer a "modern take on comfort food classics for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, seven days a week," its owners say. We wanted to create a...

There will be investigations and already there are lawsuits over the rollout of Facebook's overhyped IPO last week, but no investigation is necessary into the reason for the outrage over the stock's rapid fall. It's called human nature. It is the same characteristic that causes people to believe against staggering odds that they can win the lottery, or score big in Atlantic City or discover a foolproof "system" for playing the stock market. It is the familiar get-rich-quick notion that somehow one can bypass hard work, sound financial planning and win The Big One, retiring to a life of ease.