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· Who knows when sturgeon roe was first salted and eaten as "caviar". Maybe some cave man wanted to impress his mate on Valentine's Day. The first written record of caviar was from Batu Khan (grandson of Ghengis Khan) in the 1240's. The caviar industry started in Eurasia and around the Mediterranean. Sturgeon roe was heavily salted and packed in wooden casks. The heavy salt allowed extended shelf life. Caviar did not become worldly until the latter part of the 1800's when the French started importing the delicacy from Russia.

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