3 most luxurious foods in Europe, precious as treasures

These foods were very expensive, usually only the nobility could afford them.

1. Sturgeon roe

Sturgeon caviar is a type of caviar, prepared by soaking unfertilized fish eggs in salt. This food is of very good quality, granular, when eaten, it will break in the mouth, with a fishy and salty taste. Sturgeon caviar is known as “black gold” or “caspian black pearl” because of its rarity and color.

The most famous production area for sturgeon caviar is Russia or the northern coast of Iran and the northern part of the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea is the largest inland sea in the world and home to sturgeon, whose waters contain special algae that are the main food of sturgeon. Fishermen catch female fish in the spring and fall, then take their eggs to make caviar.

Russia has the earliest history of sturgeon fishing in the world. In the 12th century, Russian caviar became widely known, and later, the French learned to eat caviar from the emperor of Iran.

2. Foie gras

Foie gras, French for Foie Gras, is France’s most famous delicacy. This is always a gourmet favorite. However, this type of food is gradually being banned because of the cruel practice of keeping geese before meat.

To produce foie gras, people thread a thin steel tube directly into the stomach through the esophagus of the goose, pumping about 1-2kg of grain and fat into their stomach every day to facilitate the formation of infected liver. fat. The force-feeding caused the livers of these geese to swell to 10 times their normal size. They have difficulty standing because the tight liver causes the abdomen to deform, and they often tear their own feathers and attack each other due to stress.

3. Black truffles

Black truffles, also known as Périgord truffles, are a species of mushroom native to southern Europe. It is also known as the black diamond of Provence (France). An ancient Greek legend tells that truffles were born where Zeus’ lightning struck the earth. Truffles live underground, symbiotically with trees such as English oak or with shrubs such as hazel.

In general, truffles are difficult to grow because they require special care. Even when all environmental factors can be met, the first Perigord truffles take about 7-10 years to develop. It must then be hand-harvested by licensed truffle hunters and trained truffle hounds. Harvest time is from mid-November to March every year.