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It’s never simple, is it? Too much Thanksgiving turkey and you’re knocked out for the night. Too much MSG and you wonder if you have a headache. Too much pie and too much, well, guilt. With good food, there’s pleasure and there’s pain. But sometimes, we mean literally pain.
Today, we are launching the first of a series on luxe foods - oysters, champagne, caviar, etc. These periodic posts will showcase a different luxe food item or topic. Why? Well, because love ‘em or hate ‘em, luxe foods are fascinating because they’re just so luxe . Why do they cost so much? Do they live up to the hype? What even is it? Is there a dupe? In this series, we’ll be answering questions like these and giving a primer on the decadent and delectable .
First up - caviar . The name itself is intractably associated with with all things luxe, simply because there’s no such thing as authentic, cheap caviar. Today, we’ll be giving a brief background on what it is, how to distinguish good caviar from even better caviar, and the proper way to eat it. Newbies welcome!