Chilled Sweet Pea Soup with Smoked Sturgeon and Caviar

Here is a dish that is a prime example of the multicultural influences in urban American cooking. I can name four cuisines from which these combinations derive. The Japanese influence is obvious in the wasabi and shiso (remember those wasabi-flavored crunchy peas?). The Eastern European sway is evident in the combination of smoked fish and horseradish, even if the latter happens to be Japanese. The same argument can be made for the English combination of peas with (Japanese) mint. Then ther