Word: beluga
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Brooklyn nurses a baby beluga...
Cocaine is the caviar of drugs, except that it is 70 times as costly as the finest beluga. While an eclectic consumer might feel that caviar and a bottle of Bellinger brut give a headier, cheaper and wholly licit lift to an evening, many American hedonists get more of a kick* through the nose...
...gourmet business is obviously prospering on the small clientele that is willing to pay $30 per lb. for Scotch salmon or $345 for a 14-oz. tin of fresh Russian Beluga caviar. But the shops are also attracting large numbers of middle class customers who believe food is more than just fuel...
...kind of cross between buttermilk and yogurt, is exceptionally good, as is a soft curd cheese called tvorog. Fruits and vegetables are found only in season, but often have more flavor than those in the U.S. Canned salmon and crab meat are especially delicate. Caviar? Nothing matches Russian beluga, which costs about $27 per Ib. (compared with $420 per Ib. in the U.S.), when it is available...
...Yard man is free to move around at will in a prewar Railton automobile; he gets German-issue cigarettes, frequent dollops of real Highland Scotch, and attends fraternal parties at which the occupiers, and collaborationists from bed, board room and Burke's Peerage, shamelessly down quantities of beluga caviar and champagne...