All right, it's the Gilded Age in New York.

Folks are milling around some park avenue mansion with all their high society friends

listening to an orchestra while enjoying a fancy dinner.

Suddenly a waiter comes around serving a bowl of tiny black pearls.

It's caviar.

Those little salty fish eggs, and I gotta be honest, I never really understood why people

eat it.

But back then, and even now, it's considered the height of fashion to have some.

Russian sturgeon caviar is certainly the most famous with its buttery smooth taste.

But this caviar, well, it ain't from Russia, it's from the Midwest, specifically Lake

Winnebago.

Wisconsin's largest lake has been teaming with sturgeon for hundreds of years.

So sturgeon is, I think, the best way to describe it, it's almost like a dinosaur.

Like it's a prehistoric fish.

These things can grow to be bigger than six feet long, they're massive.

Jake Princeton is a reporter that's worked for a number of publications, including the

Appleton Post Crescent.

They got spikes on their back.

They look like a dinosaur.

People acquire the taste for its flesh.

They like the smoke, and they love its eggs.

So much so.

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