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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Chapter 37 Caviar, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7

Chapter 37: Caviar

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Answer Key

1. Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, in 1556, expanded Russia from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Volga delta.
2. The railway between Volga and the River Don was completed in 1859.
3. The factor that introduced caviar to the Mediterranean was the steamship.
4. Caviar became a sensation in Paris.
5. True, Volga fishermen began to take sturgeon from the Caspian Sea as well as from the river, leading to a situation where Caspian sturgeon would have become extinct had it not been for the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the subsequent introduction of strict regulations by officials of the Soviet Union.
6. Today, caviar comes from farmed fish.
7. True, all three of the Caspian sturgeon are now considered to be critically endangered in the wild.

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