Poland eyes luxury market for caviar

Rus, Poland

FOODIES, take note: After flooding the global market with its vodka, apples and berries, Poland has gone gourmet and is trying its hand at making black caviar.

Dressed from head to toe in sterile clothing, a worker leans over a sieve containing roe from Russian and Siberian sturgeon. She uses tweezers to remove any leftover bits from the ovary sack - anything to ensure the quality of the caviar.

Nor is hygiene to be trifled with at the fish farm in the northern Polish village of Rus. "We produce unpasteurised, fresh caviar, so we have to make sure it doesn't …