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Ingredients define the quality of the final dish and sometimes even its price! There are expensive ingredients, and then there are way-too-expensive ingredients. So, here’s a look at some of these ingredients that fall in the latter category.
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1. White Alba Truffle - These are also called trifola d’Alba Madonna, making them elite amongst truffles.
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2. Edible Gold - Well, it’s gold and it’s edible, of course, it’s bound to be an expensive ingredient.
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3. Saffron - These are prized stems of the crocus that can only be harvested by hand.
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4. Beluga Caviar - Prized for its salty and earthy taste, Beluga Caviar is the world’s most expensive caviar.
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5. Ethical Foie Gras - Made with the fat of wild goose raised ethically on open farmland will certainly set you back by quite a huge amount.
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6. Kopi Luwak - Regarded as the most expensive coffee in the world, these coffee beans pass through a civet’s digestive system.
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7. Swiftlet Nests - These are used to make the insanely popular bird’s nest soup, a bowl of which is said to be a cure-all!
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So, which one of these expensive ingredients would you want to try?
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