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Cheese has been a dairy favourite among many since ancient times – its origins even pre-dating recorded history. It comes in several forms, flavours and textures and can feature in anything from a pizza to a platter accompanying a bottle of fine wine.
But there’s one type of cheese which you’re not very likely to come by very often – the world’s most expensive cheese.
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Here’s an odd one for the world’s most expensive foods list:
Back in 2005, a couple named Mike and Liz started a blog detailing their experience after they had allegedly found a french fry at McDonalds that featured a near-perfect profile of U.S. sixteenth President Abraham Lincoln, as seen on the penny coin.
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As the most widely consumed beverage in the world after water, many of us enjoy unwinding with a hot cup of tea after a hard day’s work.
Tea comes in many forms – such as white, green, oolong and black – and can be packaged in several forms – including as loose leaf tea, compressed tea, instant tea, or as tea bags.
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Ferran Adrià, owner of the restaurant famed as being the best in the world, El Bulli, has decided to close the restaurant at the end of the year.
Adrià said he would be taking a hiatus from El Bulli as of 2012 to explore new gastronomy trends and to do some teaching in the United States, before re-opening for the 2014 season.
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Spandau Ballet lead singer Tony Hadley helped deliver a gold leaf-covered special edition of a Wispa Gold bar, priced at a gobsmacking £961.48, to London store Selfridges on August 3, 2009.
Hadley was helping to promote the relaunch of the once popular Cadbury’s treat, which went back on sale at the more reasonable price of 55p in September 2009, six years after it was originally discontinued. The chocolate bar went back into production following a huge campaign on Facebook, where more than 22,000 people joined the group “Bring back Cadbury’s Wispa Gold”.
Hadley was accompanied by a full security team to ensure the luxury chocolate bar was kept under lock and key.
The bar is covered in edible gold leaf and sheathed in a gold leaf wrapper, and its price is said to be the precise value of its weight in gold.
All proceeds from its sale went to the UK Lowe Syndrome Trust, of which Hadley is patron.
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Would you pay £350 a pint for the world’s most expensive beer? James May and Oz Clarke taste the world’s most expensive beer at Carlsberg UK in Northampton to see if the extraordinary price tag is worth it.
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Christmas is a time to eat, drink and be merry! And you will certainly be able to do just that with the world’s most expensive Christmas dinner.
Here’s a shopping list for the ultimate Christmas dinner for ten – priced at close to half a million pounds, according to The London Magazine:
Presentation
Fissler diamond cooking pot (for sprouts)… £100,000
Christofle ‘Malmaison’ diamond cutlery… £96,000
A set of 10 silver chased Theo Fennell water beakers… £56,000
10 Cristal St Louis champagne flutes, 20 wine glasses and 10 port glasses (all £200 each), from Harrods… £8,000
Hand-painted Herend china Christmas table setting for 10… £8,330
Bespoke double damask tablecloth… (£850) and napkins (£25.00 each), from Jane Sacchi… £1,100
Pair of House of Odiot sterling silver gilt candlesticks… £29,000
Box of gold tapered Venetian candles… £50
Tiffany candle snuffer… £170
David Linley walnut handle sterling silver Stilton scoop… £175
David Linley crystal caviar bowl… £995
Tiffany ‘Paloma’s Groove’ sterling silver corkscrew… £145
Theo Fennell Christmas bowl centrepiece… £5,600
KWO gold-leaf nutcracker… £28,699
Subtotal: £334, 264
Wine
2 bottles 1995 Krug Clos du Mesnil Champagne (£550 per bottle)… £1,100
Asprey sterling silver cooler… £3,300
2 bottles 2003 Le Montrachet, Domaine de la Romanee-Conti (£2,520)… £5,040
4 bottles 1945 Mouton-Rothschild (£9,270)… £37,080
2 bottles 1949 Chateau d’Yquem (£1,800)… £3,600 Wines from Berry Bros & Rudd
Subtotal: £50,120
Food
500g prize reserved Iranian beluga caviar (£345 for 50g)… £3,450
Side of wild smoked salmon… £60
2 packets Cruscam Russian blini pancakes… £8
2 pots Longley Farm sour cream… £1.80
1kg fresh Dordogne foie gras… £65
Lidgate’s limited-edition turkey (10kg)… £100
2 packets chestnuts (for stuffing)… £10
MA Brussels sprouts… £2
5g white truffle (£50 a gram)… £250
Leg of Iberico ham… £700
Paxton & Whitfield whole Stilton… £105
Paxton & Whitfield truckle of cheddar… £32
Paxton & Whitfield savoury biscuit collection… £12
Fiona Cairns bespoke Christmas cake… £60
20 Fortnum and Mason mince pies… £23.17
Fortnum & Christmas pudding (£14.95) plus 10 real silver Victorian sixpences (£35 each)… £364.95
Voss water from Fortnum & Mason… £1.99
Subtotal: £5,245.91
Digestive
Bottle 1963 Quinta do Noval Nacional Port from Bibendum… £1,800
Bottle Louis XIII de Remy Martin cognac from Berry Bros & Rudd… £995
Five Cohiba Piramides limited-edition Maduro Havana Cigars (£22.90 each), from Davidoff… £114.50
William Curley handmade chocolates… £32
Subtotal: £2,941.50
Extras
Twelve Harrods ‘Russian’ crackers (£999 a box of six)… £1,998
Celebrity cook… £4,000
10 Theo Fennell silver toothpicks (£145 each)… £1,450
Zantac indigestion pills (48)… £10.50
Subtotal: £7,458.50
Grand total: £400,029.91
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Burger King’s £95 sandwich, named simply The Burger, made Guinness World Record history as the world’s most expensive hamburger when it was launched in 2008 as a limited edition.
The world’s most succulent Japanese beef is complemented with white truffles, onion tempura prepared in Cristal champagne, and Italy’s finest Pata Negra prosciutto.
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Millions of people around the world will be celebrating Thanksgiving today with a plentiful feast of turkey, with all the trimmings, topped off with a slice of traditional pumpkin pie.
But for some, a traditional home-made Thanksgiving dinner doesn’t quite make the bill. Just ask the Thanksgiving dinner-goers at the former Café Grey in New York. Traditionally, Thanksgiving Dinner at their chef’s table runs at US$10,000 for 12 seats. That’s around $833 a head.
So what do discerning Thanksgiving fans get at Café Gray’s? In 2006, chef Gray Kunz’s expensive event included a breakfast of, among other things, scrambled eggs (with caviar and chervil), smoked salmon (with dill crème fraîche) and bacon. Between meals, there was a viewing of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (on plasma screens), balloon sculptures and a strolling magic show. The Thanksgiving dinner itself consisted of endive and quince salad, truffled butternut squash potage or lobster and crabmeat gratin, and the centrepiece, a roasted organic lemon thyme turkey.
Now that’s one lavish Thanksgiving dinner!
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The next time you’re at a restaurant gawking at the hefty prices on the wine list, spare a thought: they’re most probably nowhere near the prices of the top 10 most expensive bottles of wine. That should make your choice a little easier.
Sold: US$3176 per bottle
Take a number and get in line for the most hyped Bordeaux vintage in recent memory.
Sold: US$4,650 per bottle
There is tremendous competition to snare bottles from this, DRC’s most exalted vineyard. Jamie Wolff, partner in Chambers Street Wines and Spirits, advises that you can’t just walk off the street with your credit card expecting to buy a bottle, however. “There’s not a lot to go around. They’re for my loyal customers.”
Sold: Zachys LA auction, October 2004, US$24,675 per bottle.
Francis Ford Coppola keeps one of these (empty) on top of his refrigerator. “It was one of the best I’d ever had,” he said about the wine, which set the record for a Californian. And how did it taste? “There is a signature violet and rose petal aroma that completes this amazingly well-preserved, robust wine that had just finished fermentation at the time of Pearl Harbor.”
Sold: Hart Davis Hart, Chicago, June 2006, US$20,145 per bottle
The DRC Duvault-Blochet is a 1er Cru wine from grand cru grapes, and there were only three vintages ever made: 1934, 1999 and 2002. Driving the price up even further on this rare wine was a pre-auction tasting note from Allen Meadows (aka The Burghound) and a score of 99, giving the stunning wine impeccable credentials.
Sold: Sotheby’s, New York, 2001, US$23,929 per bottle
As winesearcher.com shows, you can grab the 1978 for $6000 at Park Avenue Wine & Spirits. It remains a mystery why this went for so much money during the 2001 slump, even if it is the only white wine property from DRC in a very good year. Be warned: Much bottle variation is reported on this gorgeous wine in this particular vintage, from dreary to sublime.
Sold: Christie’s Los Angeles, September 2006, US$28,750 per bottle (a 6 magnum case was bought for US$345,000)
Michael Broadbent waxed poetic about this vintage, summing it up as “a glorious mouthful.” By his account, 1945 was one of the best vintages in the last century. During that year, however, the Mouton was classified as a second growth, not as the first it is today. It has been described as youthful and powerful.
Sold: Vinfolio, San Francisco, July 2006, US$33,781.25 per 750 ml bottle (US$135,125 for the three-litre bottle)
The St Emilion property Cheval Blanc contains a hefty dose of difficult-to-ripen Cabernet Franc grapes. However, the year 1947 was hot and dry. According to the head of Christie’s wine auction department, Michael Broadbent, it’s still a brawny mouthful.
Sold: May 2004, Melbourne, Australia, AU$50,200
This is winemaker Max Schubert’s bold experiment that put Australian Shiraz on the map. His boss was less than charmed by the first few vintages. Nevertheless, Schubert continued to make the wine, eventually winning over his hard-to-please employer, as well as the rest of the world.
Sold: February 2006, Antique Wine Company, London, US$100,000
Those worshiping sweet wines made from Chenin Blanc often scorn the most famous of all stickies, Chateau d’Yquem, made from semillon. However, it’s hard to question its auction performance.
Sold: December 1985, Christie’s, London, US$156,450
After Christopher Forbes outbid Marvin Shanken, publisher of the Wine Spectator, he brought this bottle back to Forbes Collection on 5th Avenue. Though its origin has been debated (it was believed to belong to the estate of Thomas Jefferson), it remains the world auction record holder for a bottle of wine.
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