Personally, I like my pizza pretty basic -- but I guess if you have the bucks and the taste buds for it.....
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NEW YORK (Reuters) [/I]- A New York restaurateur has cooked up the most world's most extravagant pizza -- a $1,000 pizza topped with six sorts of caviar and fresh lobster.
Nino Selimaj, who runs six pizza restaurants in New York, on Wednesday unveiled his Luxury Pizza, a 12 inch (30 cms), thin crust topped with caviar, lobster, creme fraiche and chives. Cut into eight, it works out at $125 a slice.
"I know this won't be for everyone but there are people in New York who can afford it and once tried, they'll be back for more. It is delicious," said Selimaj, who moved to New York from Albania about 29 years ago.
"Sure, some people will say it is just a publicity stunt but I have researched this for over a year and think there is a demand. I have already sold one."
Selimaj said his restaurant Nino's Bellissima, which is the only one of his restaurants to offer the Luxury Pizza, needs 24 hours notice for the gourmet dish as it orders the caviar in advance.
"But where better to experiment with pizza than in New York where people love their pizza," he said.
If diners are still peckish after the Luxury Pizza, they can always head over to the midtown restaurant Serendipity that sells a $1,000 ice-cream sundae called Golden Opulence which is covered in 23K edible gold leaf.
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Yep, Jeep, bean sprouts!! And shredded carrots, green peppers, red peppers, green onions, chicken, and peanut sauce. All on a whole wheat crust. And I got the recipes from one of the Looneyspoons cookbooks, so it was just about as healthy as pizza can be :) And oh my god, it's SO good!!!!!!
HEY!!! Don't be mean to the caviar!! I love it, eat it every day, sometimes an entire tube. BUT...It is not the expensive version, Beluga caviar etc is just yuck and nothing like the cheap version. You can buy it at Ikea, it's delicious!
Ikea has all kinds of Scandinavian delights, thankfully, mostly Swedish though and no Danish food there, it tends to have a lot of cancer causing chemicals in their food, some very close to toxic waste. Actually, a lot of it is illegal in Norway. :D
Bean Sprouts I would never have thought to put them on a Pizza I love them so yummy.
I made pizza for supper yesterday -- total cost was probably $10, and it was YUM-MY!!! And at the opposite spectrum of caviar -- it had bean sprouts on it. Is there anything cheaper at the grocery store than bean sprouts?!
I agree with you DBD 100% about sharing the wealth......I didn't want to say it before because I didn't want to come out sounding like I'm preaching.....
Maybe they are an acquired taste. Funny how so many of these luxury treats are acquired tastes.
I don't know about this sort of thing (I think there was a $500 hamburger on the news recently). I mean people are certainly allowed to enjoy their money any way they want but there is something about this sort of thing that seems obscene to me. Imagine the benefit some charity could get with donations of the same amount. For the sake of some burger or pizza or whatever that is so temperary, someone could have help going to school or getting tools to use for work or blankets for a shelter.
I guess some people will tolerate anything to make themselves feel big and special......... :rolleyes:
Trust me it has to be status I have tasted very expensive Cavier and it is horrible tastes just like fish eggs smell.We had a very wealthy customer stay at the Resort to go Heli Skiing and they had brought it with them and we all had a tiny taste 1 egg each as the tin was about $1800 yuck. :hurl:
Haha!! Good point, anrol!! :laugh:
Really, do people eat caviar because they like how it tastes or because it's a status thing??
I wonder if they deliver? That would be one big a$$ tip!
sh$t.......1000 bucks for a freaking pizza :D ......they would have to pay me to eat that thing........caviar :hurl:
smiles
janetc