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This is a Vintage Selection from 2005

The Banter

The Guys colorfully mock the snobbery of the authors of a travel guide. 

The Conversation

The Restaurant Guys talk with the Caviar Queen, Deborah Keane of Tsar Nicoulai Caviar about the caviar situation in the world and in the U.S. You’ll be getting out your mother-of-pearl spoon by the end of the episode!

The Inside Track

The Guys met Deborah at an event where she was serving Tsar Nicoulai. They liked it so much that they began serving it in their restaurants.

“ I think you start with the restaurants and chefs because the chefs are always looking for something new, trying to improve and… looking for better alternatives and really paying attention to the planet and organic farming and higher quality products,” Deborah Keane on The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2005

Bio

Deborah Keane, dubbed the “Caviar Queen”,  built a complete, vertically integrated spawning-to-serving enterprise and is a leading pioneer in sustainable fish farming. She is the first female owned and operated caviar company in the world and the first female fish farm owner in the state of California, California Caviar Company. 

She is on the cutting edge again harvesting caviar using a no-kill method.

Info

Tsar Nicoulai Caviar 

https://tsarnicoulai.com/

California Caviar (Deborah’s current company)

https://californiacaviar.com/

No-Kill Caviar, Deborah Keane 

https://news.northeastern.edu/2021/08/10/the-caviar-industry-was-in-trouble-this-former-nursing-student-is-saving-it/

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