Lisa Steele is a fifth-generation chicken keeper and founder of the popular blog, Fresh Eggs Daily. Referred to as Queen of the Coop, Lisa traded in her life on Wall Street for life on a farm in rural Maine, where she has kept chickens for more than a dozen years. Having written a number of books on raising and caring for chickens, Lisa is a trusted source for all things chicken and egg. In her new collection, “The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook,” Lisa not only offers over 100 delicious recipes for any occasion, she also provides a range of foolproof techniques for cooking eggs, including steaming, grilling, poaching, baking, and frying as well as important egg facts including how to determine an egg’s freshness, cracking the egg carton code, and optimal egg temperatures for various recipes.

While many of us already cook and bake regularly with eggs for our favorite breakfast dishes and baked treats, we can now learn how to incorporate eggs into our repertoire in a variety of unexpected ways. Here you’ll find inspired recipes for sweet and savory dishes like breads, beverages, snacks, salads, and condiments as well as classic salads, pastas, breakfast and brunch fare that all showcase the incredible and versatile egg. 

The cookbook opens with an assortment of practical and detailed information when it comes to cooking with eggs. From there, Basic Egg-Cooking Techniques are covered, including Hard and Soft Cooked, Poached, Fried, Scrambled, Oven-Cooked, Preserved. Recipes are then organized into the following chapters: Breakfast, Brunch to Lunch, Sips and Nibbles, Dinner, Sweets, Condiments, and Sauces, Fillings & Toppings. Plus additional resources, pantry and kitchen ingredients and equipment and a super helpful recipe index by number of eggs needed in addition to a general index.

Lisa is an author, popular television and radio guest, and creator of the blog Fresh Eggs Daily, the premiere online resource for chicken-keeping advice. Lisa has amassed an audience of nearly one million from all over the globe, who look to her for tips on raising backyard poultry naturally, gardening tips, and her coop-to-kitchen recipes. Her previous books on chicken keeping have sold more than 125,000 copies worldwide and are among the bestselling chicken-keeping books in print. Dubbed “queen of the coop” by the media, Lisa has been recognized by many national media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, Country Living, Farmers’ Almanac, and Parade. As a television and radio personality, Lisa has appeared on the Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family, Martha Knows Best on HGTV, P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home, and NPR’s Maine Calling. Her first book was recommended summer reading on The View in 2018, and her website was featured on an episode of The Dr. Oz Show that was focused on eating eggs. Lisa also hosted two seasons of the Telly Award–winning television show, Welcome to My Farm, on NBC in Maine. A fifth-generation chicken keeper and Maine Master Gardener, Lisa lives in rural Maine, with her husband, their corgi and barn cat, and her “girls”—a mixed flock of about thirty hens, ducks, and geese. Plus, one fairly grumpy rooster and a drake named Gregory.