“To qualify as a luxury food, the item necessarily has to be very expensive. But is that enough? Many expensive foods are quite cheap at their pint of origin, and become more and more expensive the further they have to travel. Other items are very expensive because they are very rare. Rarity does not always make food palatable. Still others have an immense value-added factor, not unlike the extravagant roasts introduced by the Romans in which as many as 15 increasingly small birds are stuffed inside a turkey. The individual ingredients are not necessarily rare or expensive, but the overall effect is extravagant, opulent and decadent. Using the criterion that a luxury food is one that many people would like to try, but few people can afford, here are 10 outrageously luxurious foods.” w/ photos
