Eggs have always been used in the kitchen, from the ancient Egyptians to the Romans the egg was never missing in a complete meal. In the first half of the 19th century, in the Tuscan countryside there was a chicken with very precise and unique characteristics, light, elegant and with a long and showy tail, today known as the Livorno chicken. When its export to America began, it quickly received a lot of notoriety, there is also a character of the Looney Tunes which bears his name, the cock Foghorn Leghorn (in English Livorno). Many European countries from the second half of the nineteenth century have begun to raise this particular breed. The most famous Livornese chicken eggs are those of Paolo Parisi, their particularity is due to the fact that breeding in the countryside of Pisa is strictly outdoors and the hens drink goat’s milk, you get a product from the yolk softer and rich in protein, and it has the ability to incorporate much more air than a normal yolk. In Rome you can also find them at Volpetti in: via della Scrofa 32, an original gift idea could be their carbonara kit with Paolo Parisi’s eggs.