DailyDirt: Expensive Meals
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
A nice meal is a nice meal, regardless of the price. But if you want to show off your considerable fortunes, try serving up a few of these ingredients in your next culinary creation. (Maybe if you’re a newly-minted billionaire, recently married… and have a penchant for killing your own food?)
- If you like really expensive vegetables, forget white asparagus, hop shoots are where it’s at. But unless they’re specially cultivated, the shoots will turn green and become tough and rope-like. [url]
- European white truffles go for thousands of dollars per pound, found by trained dogs (not pigs who will sometimes eat the fungus). Time to start cultivating these in a lab — or at least a quick DNA test to confirm the species… [url]
- About 150 flowers are needed to produce one gram of saffron — and a lot of human labor. Fortunately, it doesn’t take a lot to impart its flavor into foods, but avoid the fake stuff and don’t buy ground saffron. [url]
- To discover more food-related links, check out what’s floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]
By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.
Filed Under: asparagus, expensive, food, fungus, hop shoots, meals, saffron, truffles
Comments on “DailyDirt: Expensive Meals”
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mark z
White truffles are delicious… I have them everyday for breakfast, along with the bacon from the pig I killed last week.
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Truffles are rank anyway, it’s just that we think anything costing that much has got to taste good so we attach a positive association to it regardless of the truth of the matter . . .