Monday, December 3, 2012

Switzerland:

Hot Springs in Alps Make for Swiss Caviar (Lebanon Daily Star)

An employee of Tropenhaus Frutigen holds a
Siberian sturgeon he caught from a breeding pool
in the Alpine village of Frutigen. (Lebanon Daily Star)
When thinking of Switzerland many things may come to mind, but caviar-making sturgeon frolicking in hot Alpine springs is perhaps not one of them. Yet, a tunnel project that unexpectedly uncovered hot springs in the Bernese Alps a decade ago is gradually turning the land of exquisite watches and sumptuous cheese and chocolate into a producer to reckon with of luxury caviar.

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