Caviar, A Global History

£9.99 available from Nichola

Published by Reaction Books 2010

'Caviar' is one of the four of Reaction's 'Edible' titles that won the prestigious André Simon Award in 2011. It was also translated into Japanese.

Piquant, luxurious and decadent, caviar is renowned the world over. In this story of greed, indulgence and ultimately, hope, Nichola Fletcher takes the reader on many journeys: to the heyday of caviar in Tsarist Russia; to the 'caviar rush' in 19th century America; to Iran; to Europe in the Roaring Twenties; and to the environmental catastrophe in the Caspian Sea in the 1990s.

It would be easy to write caviar off as an out-of-date and unsustainable indulgence, but the story is far more interesting and complex than that. There is hope for the future, and we may now consume with gusto one of life's most opulent foods.