RE: NANFA-- Caviar

Bruce Stallsmith (fundulus_at_hotmail.com)
Sun, 10 Oct 1999 01:49:35 EDT

If you want to blend in with the real Yankees along the New England coast,
you have to try fresh alewife egg sacs. You can either catch your own fish
when they're running in April, or buy them at fish counters. Like beer, it's
an acquired taste.

--Bruce Stallsmith
fundulus_at_hotmail.com

>From: "Jay DeLong" <thirdwind_at_att.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
>Subject: RE: NANFA-- Caviar
>Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 20:21:44 -0700
>
>What other eggs have people eaten? I've eaten fried sunfish egg sacks--
>they're kind of nutty and crunchy. My grandpa, who wasn't fond of wild
>game
>(even though he was a farmer and hunter), loved them. I probably wouldn't
>have tried them if he didn't eat them.
>
>Salmon egg soup is a traditional Indian food that I don't want to try,
>though.
>
>Jay DeLong
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanfa_at_aquaria.net On Behalf
> > Of Hoover, Jan J WES
> > Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 11:26 AM
> > To: 'nanfa_at_aquaria.net'
> > Subject: NANFA-- Caviar
> >
> >
> > In the current issue of "Natural History," Oct 99, there is an article
>on
> > the American Museum of Natural History's molecular systematics
> > lab. Part of
> > the article deals with the AMNH sturgeon tissue collection and
> > the forensic
> > work done to determine the true identity of fish eggs sold as
> > Beluga caviar.
> > Approx. one fourth of the cans tested were fraudulently labeled.
> > Unfortunately, the article does not say just which species is
> > providing the counterfeit caviar.
> >
> >
>
>
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