Best Luxury Foods
The Top Ten
1 Saffron
This is the most expensive spice in the world - it costs at least $2,000 per pound and that depends on the season. This spice is derived from the three stigmas of the flower of Crocus sativus, commonly known as the "saffron crocus". The reason for its exorbitant price is that the stigmas have to be hand-picked, making the harvesting process really difficult. To glean 1 lb (450 g) of dry saffron requires the harvest of 50,000-75,000 flowers.
As an Indian it is pretty common to have some in one's house.
2 Beluga Caviar
Beluga Caviar is one of the most expensive food items in the world and costs up to $5,000 per kilogram. Caviar is fish roe (eggs) and this particular brand comes from the Beluga Sturgeon, found mostly in the Caspian sea. It is usually served alone or as toppings to toasts.
3 White Truffles
Truffles are the most expensive food item in the world. They come from the underground ascomycetes family or tubers. The white truffles are the most expensive, particularly the Italian White Alba which was once sold for more than $160,000 for 1.51 kilograms. Truffles are expensive because their cultivation ...read more.
4 Kobe Beef
Kobe Beef comes from Japan and is so tender and fatty that rivals foie gras in texture. The cow is fed on beer and grain (Japanese breed of black cow). Kobe Beef can cost up to $300 per pound.
5 Foie Gras
Foie gras, French for "fat liver", is a luxury food product made of the liver of a duck or goose. It's probably the second luxury food in the western cuisine (next to caviar).
6 Fugu
Fugu is the Japanese word for pufferfish and is also a Japanese dish prepared from the meat of pufferfish. Pufferfish are deadly and if the fish is prepared incorrectly it can lead to death (in fact there are numerous deaths reported in Japan each year from the consumption of this delicacy). One pinhead ...read more.
7 Bird's Nest
8 Matsutake
Matsutake is the common name for a group of mushrooms in Japan that are also found in Asia and Europe. Matsutake Mushrooms can go up to $2000 per kilogram, start from $1000. It's the most expensive mushroom in the world because it's very delicious.
9 Lobster
10 Oysters
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