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Beluga Caviar Poised For a Comeback - in Florida

Caviar - one of the most expensive snacks on Earth. Fetching as much as 17 thousand dollars per kilo, the delicious briny eggs are synonymous with the lifestyles of the wealthy. Carviar is expensive because sturgeon, the fish that produce premium roe are on the brink of extinction….victims of overfishing and poaching. But in a small Florida town, thousands of miles from their native swimming grounds in the Caspian Sea, sturgeon species like sevruga, osetra and beluga are thriving.
 
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Maurice Sendak and 'Where the Wild Things Are' honored in San Francisco

Maurice Sendak, the author that brought us the imaginative book ‘Where The Wild Things Are’, is being honored with numerous pieces of his work at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco’s Presidio.