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World’s Most Expensive Grill

August 26, 2010

What better way is there to make the most of your summer than to get outside and throw some steaks, hot dogs or even veggie burgers on the grill? The Talos Outdoor Cooking Suite is an open-air professional kitchen custom-built to your specific needs. The hand-crafted stainless steel exterior houses a 42” grilling area, three [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Salad

August 9, 2010

Regular readers might expect the most expensive salad in the world to be sprinkled with edible gold leaf and topped with enormous brilliant cut diamonds. In this case, however, the dish itself is deserving of the price tag—even if it does have a bit of gold leaf. The most expensive salad was created by celebrity [...]

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Most Expensive Hot Dog

July 26, 2010

The most expensive hot dogs in history weren’t exactly special. Sure, they were limited items available for only a few days in Stockholm. Sure, it cost 999 Swedish kronor ($130 USD at the time) to get one. The pricey hot dogs, however, were no better than your average street vendor may sell you. The expensive [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Beers

July 23, 2010

Beer is one of the oldest drinks known to man—and one of this writer’s favorites. While many people enjoy drinking light and less expensive beer, there are still some beer connoisseurs out there. If you don’t believe it, then check out the proof–the world’s most expensive beers. Tutankhamun Ale – $52 per bottle This expensive [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Pineapple

July 14, 2010

A Heligan pineapple. A fruit produced in the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, England, may just be the most expensive pineapple in the world. The gardeners at Heligan, who began restoration of the derelict gardens in 1990, first purchased fruits for the Pineapple Pit in 1994. Utilizing the same techniques used 70 years ago, [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Baked Potato

July 9, 2010

(via Daily Mail) The baked potato may not be the most healthful item on your plate but, thanks to chef Ben Kingdon of The Cary Arms, it could be the priciest. The Cary Arms is “The Inn on the Beach” in the coastal town of Torquay in Devon county, England. It’s there that Kingdon produces [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Sushi

June 29, 2010

Filipino chef Angelito Araneta, Jr. specializes in extravagant foods to be used during courtship and marriage proposals. In 2009, he created a $2,500 “carat” cake coated completely in gold flake and topped with diamonds. In 2010, he created a dish that looked somewhat more, well, edible—the most expensive sushi in the world. Each of the [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Lunch

June 20, 2010

You can’t put a price tag on good company—or can you? While some might shell out for an entrée laden with gold flake and white truffle, foie gras or a Cabernet Sauvignon from Chateau Mouton Rothschild, patrons of the world’s most expensive lunches are there for one thing—the company of billionaire investor, industrialist and philanthropist [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Tap Water

March 23, 2010

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has surveyed water prices in twenty Western countries. Their findings indicate that Denmark may have the most expensive tap water in the world. Water in Denmark costs $6.70 per cubic meter. That’s about 2.5 cents per gallon–quite a bit more than in the US, where a gallon [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Cereal

March 22, 2010

The most expensive cereal in the world isn’t available in stores. In fact, there’s not enough to fill a whole cereal box—after all, there’s only one “Great Illinois Corn Flake.” The corn flake was discovered in 2008 by a 15-year-old in Chesapeake who, likely unaware of the monumental importance of her discovery, noted that it [...]

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Most Expensive Cheese

March 18, 2010

Cheese is probably the most popular dairy product in the world, a food that predates written history. In 2004 alone, over 18 million metric tons of cheese were produced worldwide. The world’s most expensive cheeses, however, are a little harder to come by. One expensive cheese is only produced at one farm and at a [...]

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Most Expensive Bottled Water

March 16, 2010

by Hunter Davis and Jeremy Harris Bottled water is big business–I mean, really big. In less than ten years, bottled water consumption has doubled, with prices about 100 times that of tap water. Whether you think bottled water is healthier or it tastes better, or even if you happily drink tap water, it’s clear that [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Ramen

February 23, 2010

If you’ve never been to a restaurant that serves genuine ramen, you’re likely to think of ramen as the cheapest of all foods—a brick of instant noodles accompanied by a sodium-rich flavor packet, all for about twenty-five cents. It shouldn’t be too surprising, however, that the most expensive ramen in the world is something completely [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Taco

February 17, 2010

Tacos are undoubtedly one of the cheaper foods in life, but that doesn’t mean they can’t get the Most Expensive treatment. All you have to do is add gold and diamonds and voila—you have the most expensive taco in the world. In this case, the “gold and diamonds” were actually hunks of filet mignon. Offered [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Tuna

January 5, 2010

The bluefin tuna is a species in decline. While the Pacific variety isn’t as endangered as the West Atlantic bluefin, it’s quite telling that half of the 600 devices that researchers from Tag-A-Giant attached to Pacific bluefins were returned to the New York-based operation by fishermen seeking the $500 reward for each device. Combine the [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Hot Sauce

November 30, 2009

To the rest of us, hot sauce aficionados may seem a little crazy. The hottest of sauces may seem like bottled pain to us, but to them it’s a delectable condiment. Luckily for us, the most expensive hot sauce in the world isn’t one of those. Cackalacky Spice Sauce is rated fewer than 1,000 units [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Gin

November 23, 2009

Gin is made by flavoring pure grain alcohol with juniper berries and other natural flavors. While it hasn’t been as popular in mixed drinks as vodka, gin has made something of a comeback in recent years. It’s no surprise, then, that the most expensive gin bottle in the world was produced in 2008. Bombay Spirits [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Chickens

November 12, 2009

Chicken is often one of the cheaper meats at the grocery store, but you can still pay a premium price for the poultry if you try hard enough. Bresse chickens, from their namesake area in France, are valued for their gamey flavor and tender flesh while Silkie chickens are valued as show chickens for their [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Breakfast

October 7, 2009

A West End stage production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, featuring Anna Friel in Audrey Hepburn’s iconic role, has opened this month and Chambord has crafted the most expensive breakfast in the world to mark the occasion. Chambord, known for their black raspberry liqueur, has combined the culinary arts and the jeweler’s craft with a croissant [...]

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Most Expensive Potato

July 27, 2009

It’s not just the world’s most expensive potato; it’s one of the world’s five most expensive foods. It’s called La Bonnotte and it grows only on the French Isle of Noirmoutier. The costly tuber owes its price to the fact that it must be harvested by hand and that its growing season lasts a mere [...]

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Most Expensive Bread

July 6, 2009

Harrods, London’s premier department store, now carries a most luxurious loaf. Britain’s most expensive bread and, if you believe some of the hype surrounding it, the most expensive bread in the world, the Roquefort and Almond sourdough is created with some of the finest ingredients money can buy. Master baker Paul Hollywood, creator of the [...]

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Most Expensive French Fry

June 29, 2009

In 2005, a couple named Mike and Liz started a blog about a special french fry they’d found at McDonald’s. The fry, which they had dubbed the Lincoln Fry, featured a near perfect profile of the sixteenth president as seen on the common penny. It was also seen in an “amateur” commercial during that year’s [...]

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Top Five Best Performing Wines of April, 2009

June 15, 2009

As the Dow Jones slouches toward 9,000, WinePrices’ has published their Fine Wines 100 Index for April of 2009. The Fine Wines 100 Index “is based on the most actively traded wines at global auctions as compiled by WinePrices.com.” We’ve pulled the top five best performing wines from the list to give you a taste [...]

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Most Expensive Mushroom

June 10, 2009

Some may have you believe that the world’s most expensive mushroom is the white truffle. While that rare fungus is truly expensive, it lacks one important quality—it’s not a freakin’ mushroom. Now that we’ve cleared that up, Japan’s matsutake mushroom can take its place as the most expensive mushroom in the world. The matsutake, or [...]

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Most Expensive Macaroni and Cheese

June 6, 2009

It’s only available at Mélisse in Santa Monica, CA and even then only between October and December. It’s the most expensive macaroni and cheese in the world and it’s a far cry from Velveeta Shells and Cheese. The decadent dish is just one example of Chef Josiah Citrin’s cuisine, blend of traditional French and modern [...]

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