The caviar way

This article will show you the long, complicated and dirty way of the caviar to you. Do you like caviar? A lot of fishes are killed for this!

Caviar is processed, salted, non-fertilized roe marketed as a luxury food, for right people. According to the F.A.O., caviar is a product made from salt-cured fish-eggs of the Acipenseridae family. The roe can be “fresh” (non-pasteurized) or pasteurized, with pasteurization reducing its culinary and economic value.

Normally the term caviar refers only to roe from wild sturgeon in the Caspian and Black Seas (Beluga, Ossetra and Sevruga caviars). Depending on the country, caviar may also be used to describe the roe of other fish such as salmon, steelhead, trout, lumpfish, whitefish, and other kinds of sturgeon.

Continue reading »