According to The world’s priciest food list compiled by Fortune Small Business, a CNN magazine, world’s most expensive food is Edible gold leaf.
The edible gold leaf comes with a price tag of $15,000 per pound. No worries, like calcium and iron, gold is actually a mineral that's safe to eat although it's not an essential part of the human diet ^_^
People usually add gold sprinkles to glasses of Champagne or signature martinis for parties. It seems expensive, but a small shaker of 23K gold sprinkles (80 mg) costs only $30 while packs of 25 small sheets of gold leaf retail for $75. 
Second place in the lists of world’s priciest foods goes to , white truffles which cost $6,000 a poundcaviar is on the third place at $1,500 a pound and Saffron is on the fourth place with a price tag of $1,500 per pound. 
Saffron is the world's most expensive spice, so it's sold in very small quantities, either as a powder (usually in tins) or in tiny threads (in clear boxes, jars, or envelope): at the Spice House in Chicago, a gram of superior grade saffron retail for $6.79, and an even finer version, known as coupé grade, for $8.29 !
Sunday, August 3, 2008
The world's priciest foods
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The $175 hamburger :The most expensive burger in New York
Its creators admit it is the ultimate in decadence: a $175 hamburger.
The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised its price from $150 to assure its designation as the costliest burger in the city as determined by Pocket Change, an online newsletter about the most expensive things in New York.
"Wall Street has good days and bad days. We wanted to have the everyday burger (for $4) ... and then something special if you really have a good day on Wall Street," said co-owner Heather Tierney.
The burger, created by chef and co-owner Kevin O'Connell, seeks to justify its price with a Kobe beef patty, lots of black truffles, seared foie gras, aged Gruyere cheese, wild mushrooms and flecks of gold leaf on a brioche bun.
The eatery sells 20 or 25 per month in the fine dining room upstairs versus hundreds of $4 burgers each day at the diner counter downstairs, Tierney said.
Pocket Change previously designated the double truffle burger at Daniel Boulud's DB Bistro Moderne as the most expensive at $120, and the Burger Shoppe set out to top that. Boulud's creation -- available only during black truffle season from December to March -- rose to $150 this past season, so the Burger Shoppe raised its price on Monday to $175.
"Our burger is not about the price," said Georgette Farkas, a Boulud spokeswoman. "If you are making something concerned only about the price, you are off in the wrong direction." [..]
Monday, April 21, 2008
A $1,000 Sushi Roll
the High Roller sushi roll that sells for $1000 will be ll be served at Koi restaurant in New York : It starts with marinated and poached fois gras that is covered with succulent Langoustine (lobster). Then the roll is brushed with saffron/vanilla bean butter and encrusted with caviar. Finally, when the roll is served the Chef comes tableside to shave white Alba truffles and drizzle them with 100 year balsamic.
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