Snail Caviar

[GlorifiedRice]

http://www.plantin.com/shop/index.php?main...bbc71123f8926a4

Is this totally different flavor than fish caviar?

Anyone taste it yet?

[rooftop1000]

Andrew Zimmern did a piece on this guy and he LOVED the stuff...kept saying to the camera that it was going to be the next big thing

The grower hand picks each egg with tweezers to remove any imperfect ones fbefore packing

Zimmerns said it tasted like a warm breeze in the forest

thats all I know

tracey

[KendallCollege]

It tastes like a salty forest. Its like eating the smell of a walk in the woods in autumn.

The texture is exactly like eating fish eggs only the flavor profile is upside down different.

Its pretty elegant stuff. Here's the company that's selling it:

http://caviar-escargot.com/en/

-tw-

Edited February 21, 2009 by KendallCollege (log)

[Kent Wang]

It's hard to tell how big they are from the photos? Are they as big as salmon roe?

[Peter Green]

These look really good, particularly from what they say of the aroma.

But is it only available in France? That's what I infer from the website.

[KCWilkinson]

It's hard to tell how big they are from the photos? Are they as big as salmon roe?

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Kent-- from the Zimmern show that people are referencing, he mentioned they were about the same relative size as salmon roe.

[Kent Wang]

Are they the same snails as escargot snails? The eggs seem awfully big for such a small snail.

[MikeJ]

Very interesting. Just found a youtube video about them:

[Renn]

Curtis Duffy at Avenues in Chicago has served them...(not that I've had a chance to try them out), who knows who else has.