Thursday, July 23, 2009
Live caviar tasting on WOCM 98.1
Doing a caviar tasting LIVE at 8:40 am on Friday at WOCM 98.1 FM. Tune in or listen online at www.irieradio.com. I'll post some pictures after the broadcast.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Putin, Obama have Russian-style breakfast
NOVO-OGARYOVO, July 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama met on Tuesday morning over a traditional
Russian breakfast.
"We have prepared for you a Russian-style breakfast," Putin said when he greeted his guest at his official residence.
The meal was served indoors on an open terrace, with some tables covered with blue, white and red tablecloths in the style of classic Pavlovsky Posad
shawls.
The menu included smoked sturgeon with pancakes and cranberry sauce, eggs with black caviar and sour cream, and quail pelmeni, Russian dumplings filled
with minced meat.
Homemade ice-cream and cherry kisel, a sweet sauce, were served for dessert.
Obama also got the opportunity to drink tea made from water boiled in a samovar, a traditional Russian boiler containing hot coals. A waiter in national
dress, including a red embroidered tunic, used a leather riding boot to fan air through the coals to boil the water.
A folk ensemble played traditional Russian songs during the breakfast.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Kaluga caviar at Red Square!
We just got new caviar- Kaluga. This is probably the closest you can get to Beluga caviar these days. Kaluga caviar comes from the Kaluga sturgeon.
The Kaluga (Huso dauricus) just like Beluga (Huso huso) is a large predatory sturgeon. It is found in the Amur River, common to Russia and China. Also known as the Great Siberian Sturgeon, they are claimed to be the largest freshwater fish in the world, with a maximum size of at least 1,000 kg (2,205 lb) and 5.6 m (18.6 ft). Like the slightly larger Beluga, it spends part of its life in saltwater and matures at around eighteen to twenty years of age.
The eggs are similar in size to those of a young Oscetra.
The population of this sturgeon is dropping off more and more every year as hydroelectric dams are being built on Syberian Rivers.
Luckily Russia and China started to farm-raise Kaluga so we do have caviar from farm-raised Kaluga sturgeon. And it is delicious!!!
The Kaluga (Huso dauricus) just like Beluga (Huso huso) is a large predatory sturgeon. It is found in the Amur River, common to Russia and China. Also known as the Great Siberian Sturgeon, they are claimed to be the largest freshwater fish in the world, with a maximum size of at least 1,000 kg (2,205 lb) and 5.6 m (18.6 ft). Like the slightly larger Beluga, it spends part of its life in saltwater and matures at around eighteen to twenty years of age.
The eggs are similar in size to those of a young Oscetra.
The population of this sturgeon is dropping off more and more every year as hydroelectric dams are being built on Syberian Rivers.
Luckily Russia and China started to farm-raise Kaluga so we do have caviar from farm-raised Kaluga sturgeon. And it is delicious!!!
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