[net.cooks] Inexpensive foods in their native lands

dxp@houxf.UUCP (POND SCUM) (10/30/85)

Following Sue Brezden(sp)s article about how inexpensive snails
were in France, I thought about throwing my 2 cents in and start
a new subject. Gourmet foods at inexpensive prices AND where to
find them.

   I remember fondly a goblet of caviar for approx $ 1.00 in Iran
whilst there in 1976, purchased in an expensive hotel that was 
400-500 miles from the Caspian Sea. So I probably could have got
them for less at Caspian Sea resorts(is that a valid assumption
Reza ?)

Any more ?


    Dave Peak
    @  ihnp4!hotel!dxp

"All the net's a stage and all the men and women merely ham actors !"
- Rev Peak (apologies to Bill S.)

reza@ihuxn.UUCP (Reza Taheri) (10/31/85)

>    I remember fondly a goblet of caviar for approx $ 1.00 in Iran
> whilst there in 1976, purchased in an expensive hotel that was 
> 400-500 miles from the Caspian Sea. So I probably could have got
> them for less at Caspian Sea resorts(is that a valid assumption
> Reza ?)
> 
>     Dave Peak
>     @  ihnp4!hotel!dxp

   Yup, that's right.  I remember that my uncle used to eat the "stuff"
once in a while but I never touched any of his because it didn't look
like a big deal and my parents told me it didn't taste good!  You don't
take your parents' word about caviar, you dummy!!

   Whenever I was in northern Iran (by the Caspian Sea) I'd go to small
restaurants that were not frequented by tourists.  One would always get
about 4-6 oz. of sturgeon eggs (unpickled but very salty, i.e. not
technically caviar) the way you get, say, rolls in an American restaurant.
 
H. Reza Taheri
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