[Sca-cooks] Caviar

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 12:47 PM 10/10/02 -0400, you wrote:

>>>Did anyone already mention the perennial Russian recipe of caviar
>>>folded in crepes?
>>Ok, these are a traditional food, but is there any evidence that
>>
>>this particular dish dates back before 1600CE?
>
>I STR caviar being mentioned in Italian poetry from period
<snip>
>I believe to
>be period, a firm, cured roe eaten today in the Mediterranean basin
>and the Far East, good grated over pasta with oil or butter, like a
>truffle, or sliced paper-thin with olives and such) would be the most
>likely candidate for a modern equivalent to period caviar.
>
>Adamantius

Yes, but I think the question was whether or not the recipe for Russian
blini with sour cream and caviar is period...

Gotta wonder about the first guy who pulled the eggs out of a sturgeon an
dsaid to himself "I think I'll eat that!" :-P

'Lainie
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