Are you ready for Boiled Raisin Cake as the Ukraine war drags on?

Raisin cake. Photo by Schnäggli. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Eggs are becoming the newest contraband at America’s border with Mexico. In Britain, the cost of staple foodstuffs such as bread and pasta and even beer is rising, amid wheat shortages. Energy prices are also pushing up costs.

The largest ground war in Europe since 1945 continues apace and is expected to intensify with a Russian spring offensive and a fierce Ukrainian fight back with German-made Leopard tanks. Russia’s hideous war on Ukraine has affected exports from two key suppliers of the world’s wheat and grains, pushing up the price of chicken feed, even as chicken farmers, like the rest of us, pay more for the same amount of energy they used before the February 24, 2022 invasion.

And then there is the outbreak of a very contagious avian flu.

Eggs are becoming a delicacy and I don’t mean caviar (ie sturgeon eggs).

In the US, this is likely to force an unpleas…