Caviar guides

Serving caviar

• Caviar and blini: how to serve them, with a buckwheat blini recipe

  How to serve caviar on blini the classic way: warm buckwheat blini, cold crème fraîche and a small spoon of caviar. A yeasted buckwheat recipe, a quick version, store-bought tips, and how much caviar you need per blini.

• Caviar for New Year's Eve: how much, how to serve it, and a caviar pie

  Plan caviar for a New Year's Eve party: how much to buy for your guest count, when to have it delivered, a simple blini table, and a make-ahead caviar pie that serves ten.

• What goes in a caviar kit: everything you need to serve caviar at home

  A caviar kit is the tin plus everything to serve it: ice, non-metal spoons, blini, crème fraîche and a few garnishes. What to include, what to skip, and how to put one together as a gift without the caviar going warm.

• The essential guide to caviar spoons

  Why caviar is served with mother-of-pearl, bone, wood or glass instead of metal, and how to choose and care for a caviar spoon.

• How to serve caviar

  Keep it cold, use a non-metal spoon and keep the accompaniments simple. A short guide to serving fresh caviar at home.