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My dad raised chickens when I was a kid in Minnesota, so I tell my family that I grew up eating some of the freshest eggs in America. We’d just pluck them out of the nests in our barn and bring them inside to cook in any number of ways, from soft scrambled with chives (my favorite) to sunny-side up. “Eggs are an inexpensive source of high-quality protein,” says Lizann Powers-Hammond…