The Skinny on Sturgeon
Trade Talk
Weird Facts
Staging at Sterling
Caviar as Food
100
Sturgeon are thought to be a prehistoric fish, so they may have once inhabited the earth with these
What are dinosaurs?
100
Caviar should be handled with utensils made of this material
What is mother of pearl, wood, plastic?
100
The breakup of this caviar producting country meant the end of the state controlled caviar trade and strict harvesting restriction and regulation, thus giving birth to the "caviar mafia"
What is the Soviet Union?
100
Island Creek will be selling this species of sturgeon
What is Pacific White Sturgeon?
100
Caviar was was once pressed and used as a filling in this popular lunch food for the lower class
What is a sandwich?
200
These are three environmental threats to the modern wild sturgeon
What is overfishing, pollution and habitat fragmentation?
200
This is another word for the eggs (or roe) in the caviar trade
What are beads?
200
This TV show used the tag line "Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams"
What is Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous?
200
This company just ended a 20 year contract with Sterling in January 2017, allowing ICO to swoop in
What is Petrossian?
200
This is the famous French Laundry dish that pairs Island Creek Oysters with caviar
What is 'Oysters and Pearls'?
300
This is how big these f*ckers can get
What is 2,500 lbs?
300
It was in this year that a world-wide trade ban on wild caviar was enacted after major caviar-producing countries failed to convince officails that their stocks of wild sturgeon are sustainable
What is 2006?
300
To order the sandwich in front of you and have it delivered to your home, you would use this online delivery service
What is Caviar?
300
True or False: Sterling is the second oldest caviar farm in the world
What is False?
300
True or False: Caviar is a cured product
What is True?
400
It is these behavioral characteristics that have contributed to sturgeon being overharvested?
What is very docile, slow moving, passive, super easy to catch?
400
This Russian word means "lightly salted", indicating that the caviar is of the highest quality and therefor needs minimal salt for preservation
What is Malossol?
400
Tom Hanks is repulsed by Beluga Caviar in this 1988 film
What is BIG?
400
Sterling's caviar is most similar to this other well known caviar variety
What is Osetra?
400
These are the three factors by which caviar quality is judged
What is egg size, egg firmness, egg color?
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