caviar

Time was, the drink seemed decadent all on its own. A West Coast festival has changed that.

Millions in government grants to caviar producers failed to produce any results

Canadian taxpayers have put a lot of eggs into one basket of New Brunswick’s luxury-caviar market. Before Supreme Sturgeon and Caviar of Pennfield, N.B., fell into receivership in 2010, it had pulled in roughly $3 million in government grants and loans over the course of a decade. It was later revived under new ownership as Breviro Caviar, which, since 2010, has received at least another $750,000 in federal and provincial grants and loans to help with marketing, as well as research and development. While the influx of cash enabled the company to start building a second production site, taxpayers in New Brunswick may now be on the hook for even more.

Jacob Richler on some very, very good eggs

It’s got the flavour of the Bay of Fundy and is found only in one river in New Brunswick