Word: caviar
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Some people spread it on lightly buttered toast as a holiday treat. Others wrap it in blinis with a dollop of sour cream. But purists insist that the best way to eat beluga caviar is straight off the spoon, followed by a shot of vodka or a sip of ice-cold champagne. For those who can afford to shell out $100 or more an ounce, these precious salted sturgeon eggs are a taste of what life was like for the Russian czars and czarinas who feasted regularly on fine caviar...
...would hike up an active volcano during a hurricane and skinny-dip in a hot, sulfurous pond. We would marvel at spouting geysers and boiling mudholes in psychedelic hues. We would share vodka and salmon caviar with melancholy park rangers in ramshackle huts. And we would be seduced by the mystery of Kamchatka, a land of fire and ice that remains one of the wildest places on earth...
...three fathoms (6.5m) to the 'moon pool' entrance of the former underwater research laboratory. Employees bring food and linen down in a dry box SIGHTSEEING Meter-wide windows offer views of the tropical mangrove habitat's residents, including angelfish and lobster SPECIAL PACKAGE An underwater wedding, complete with caviar, flowers, cake and a one-night honeymoon, costs...
...fill the space between prose and ads with verse that was alternately and sometimes simultaneously cheerious and sneerious. He wrote children's books, screenplays and a hit song ("Speak Low") for the Broadway show "One Touch of Venus," But his bread-and-butter, which after a while was caviar and Dom Perignon, was magazine work in the light-verse genus. In a 40-year career he wrote for Life and Look, for Harper's and Harper's Bazaar, for Woman's Day and Playboy, and even for Hallmark. And if Sam Walton has asked him to, Nash might have produced...
...softly lit interior accented with ornate Russian trim. Traditional copper cooking implements, paintings and woodwork adorn the walls; the overall impression is that of a Russian country inn where the landed gentry would gather. What truly sets it apart, however, is its food. Sure, all the standard Russian favorites?caviar, borscht, chicken kiev?are available. But the signature dishes spring from Sakhalin's abundant bounty of fresh seafood, game, fruits and vegetables. Start with an appetizer of scallops bathed in a mustard sauce. The tangy dish will leave you wishing it was offered as a main...