Today, hungry, as always, I walked into our Russian seminar, looking forward to a delicious treat. Imagine my surprise, my delight, when I was greeted with a heaping plate of buterbrodi s ikroy. Now, if your like me, that will make little to no sense to you, so please, allow me to elaborate. It was essentially bread, butter, and caviar. Needless to say, it was delicious. Its flavor, slightly reminiscent of LOX, its texture not unlike the jelly pearls atop frozen yogurt, its appearance, a pile of pink and white, made for an overall exciting and unique delicacy. I can't wait until the next time I'll be able to try it again. Do Svidanya!
-Caeley
Wait, those were fish eggs?
ReplyDeleteCaviar is one of the oldest delicacies. Before raw oysters, before Champagne, before even truffles were a delicacy, caviar was coveted by kings and the aristocracy. Ancient Greeks, Romans and Russian tsars were all known to splurge on caviar. Caviar is consisting of salt-cured roe or fish-eggs of certain species of fish, usually the sturgeon (black caviar) and the salmon (red caviar). We hope you enjoyed the red caviar sandwiches.
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