Most expensive food in the world in 2016
Probably some culinary obsessions or preferences pushed to extravagance cause overspending, here is a ranking of the most original and expensive foods in the world.
(*) Mercury: Official table showing the current prices of foodstuffs sold on a public market; the official price of these commodities
1. Mushrooms Matsutake (or pine mushroom) - $ 2,000 / kg (€ 1.780). These mushrooms, called the mushroom kings, are very expensive and highly sought after, as they have an annual output of less than a thousand tons. They have a unique scent and flavor that carries over to foods on the same dish when prepared with them.
2 .The bagel most expensive in the world - $ 1000 (€ 890). This bagel, created by Chef Frank Tujague at the Westin Hotel in New York City, is covered with cream cheese and berries goji infused with Riesling white truffle and gold leaf jelly.
3. The most expensive omelet in the world - "The Zillion Dollar Frittata" - $ 1,000 (€ 890). This spectacle omelet has eggs in the composition, lobster and 100 grams of caviar.
4. The steak wagyu beef : $ 2800 per kg (€ 2.490). This meat is obtained from Wagyu cattle, which is believed to be fed only with beer and massaged by hand. This breed of beef comes only from the Hyogo region of Japan and the recipe for preparing the meat, as well as the breeding are secrets that follow a tradition that dates back thousands of years.
5. The lobster most expensive curry in the world - Samundari Khazana (“treasure seafood”) - $ 3.200 (€ 2.850). It is prepared from crabe Devon, from Alba white truffles, caviar, gold leaf, a Scottish lobster wrapped in gold and four quail eggs.
6. Domenico's Corolla Pizza - $ 4200 (€ 3.740). A 30cm pizza baked with some of the most expensive ingredients in the world, including lobster marinated in cognac, caviar and champagne, smoked salmon Scottish fillets roe, prosciutto, white truffle scented balsamic vinegar.
. The watermelon Densuke - $ 6.100 (€ 5.430). In Japan, watermelons are considered a rare fruit. Densuke watermelons only grow in northern Japan in Hokkaido and are particularly sought after due to their exceptional flavor when peeled. Densuke watermelons are black, with a soft if a bit rough rind. Their price is justified by the annual harvest which brings together less than 1000 pieces, although there is in the statistics rather mentioning an annual harvest of 650 melons.
8. The Yubari King melon : $ 23,900 (€ 21.270). Grown in the Yubari region of Japan, known for its fertile volcanic soils, Yubari melons are considered the sweetest and most succulent fruits. Yubari melons are hand picked and sent to a Japanese agricultural association for the purpose of receiving grades and can then be sent for sale. In 2008, two of these melons were sold for $ 23,900 (€ 21.270).
9. The Almas caviar : $ 25,000 (€ 22.250) or € 37 per spoon, Almas caviar with white, almost translucent eggs, is the most expensive caviar in the world. It comes from Iran and is produced at the port. In Europe, it can be found at Caviar House & Prunier and at Picadilly in London which sells a gold-plated box for $ 25,000 per kilogram. Almas is a name in Persian which means diamond, and the eggs are collected from a female sturgeon which has limited production.
Depending on demand and therefore the market, the price per kilo can reach $ 37.000 per kilo. No need to be discouraged, however, as a miniature version (32 grams) can be purchased for $ 800.
10. The Serbian cheese Pule : The Pula is patented in a farm de Serbia with some milk donkey Balkans full Zasavica Reserve. The Pule is the cheese the most expensive du monde and it's worth some $1.300 a kilo.
11. The white Italian truffle from Alba : $107.000 (€95.230) per kg. Here is another rare product: the Italian white truffles from Alba. The Associated Press reported that a Hong Kong property investor and his wife paid around $160.000 (€142.000) for 1,5 kg of Alba white truffles, bringing them to 95 euros per gram.
12. The Red wine Romanée-Conti Grand Cru: (from € 15.000 to € 30000 per bottle). According to the ranking established in 2016 by the Wine searcher (a website and search engine founded in London in 1999), the most expensive wine in the world is a bottle from the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Romanée-Conti Grand Cru, Côte de Nuits, France which is said to be worth between 15 and 000 30 €, depending on the vintage.
On October 12, 2016, a 75 cl bottle, 2010 vintage of romanée-conti was on sale at the duty free at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport at € 32, which was the highest price on that date. high found.