CAVIAR

Description

Wild Caspian commercial production collapsed with the Soviet Union. That “beluga” on the menu isn’t Huso huso. The $25,000 Almas gold tin has a mythology so perfectly constructed you almost don’t want to question it. Almost. Stevie J ranks every species, interrogates every major producer, explains the CITES treaty that blew up the Caspian, and makes the case that the best caviar available right now may have been farmed in Germany. The restaurant markup would make a loan shark blush. And that guy at the party who brought “real Iranian beluga”? He didn’t. For the buyer who’s tired of being the most expensive person at the table and the least informed.