Expensive Eve

[jean63]

4 - bananas : Colombia => I did not buy any; you have to buy those from Martinique although "by plane "(not sure, maybe by boat .. ??) but there it does not grow in France metropolitan

By adding that it's better not to hurt or encourage anyone.

Exact .... I forgot but it was implicit in my mind

PS: I completed my list ... and I will continue later for the rest.

[jean63]

A small issue of France Inter on unnecessary transport, in the particular case of the Mont Blanc Tunnel.

It is the choice, in the format mp3 or ogg, it starts at the 11eme minute.

http://media.la-bas.org/mp3/070206/070206.ogg
http://media.la-bas.org/mp3/070206/070206.mp3

I can not read these media files !! why?

[sam17]

I just checked again, it works well from home. The easiest way to read this type of file is to have a program called winamp. http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/cli ... 2_lite.exe
that makes 1.2 MB, the weight of a big picture.

[elephant]

and a little oil on the fire, one!

(yahoo, this Sunday night)

Gastronomic dinner for billionaires in Bangkok

BANGKOK (AP) - Beluga caviar, Périgord truffle and Dom Perignon champagne sorbet are on the Saturday night menu in Bangkok for an exceptional gourmet dinner reserved for billionaire gourmets. For this "meal of a lifetime", as the organizers called it, each of the guests must indeed pay the modest sum of 25.000 dollars (19.000 euros).

Of course, the various taxes and other tips are not included in this price provided for information purposes.

Six great chefs from France, Italy and Germany, all three Michelin stars, will prepare the ten exceptional dishes of this meal, accompanied by wines as fine as rare.

"It's surreal! It's all surreal!" Enthuses Alain Solivérès, chef of the Taillevent restaurant in Paris. This famous chef's hat has for mission to prepare two of its specialties, including a particularly tantalizing starter for the taste buds: a crème brûlée of foie gras washed down with Louis Roederer Cristal, a champagne at more than 500 dollars (400 euros) the bottle which remains however one of the cheapest vintages on this menu.

"Bringing together all these three-star chefs and serving such wines to so many people is an incredible feat", continues the French chef, a few hours before this extraordinary feast. "It is fabulous!"

Hard to know if this is the most expensive dinner ever served. Oenologists and lovers of fine wines regularly organize contests reserved for a wealthy clientele in New York, London or Tokyo. Some hedonistic bosses also offer exceptional nights with millions of dollars.

The big difference with these orgies comes from the place where this dinner is held. In Thailand, it takes an average teacher five years' salary to make $ 25.000 and many in this country are not so well off. The man in the street considers this luxurious “one million baht” madness to be "wasted money".

The price announced for these gastronomic celebrations does not only shock Thais. "It's crazy," admits French chef Antoine Westermann of Buerhiesel in Strasbourg, where dinner costs an average of 200 euros per head. “How can a meal be so expensive?” He wonders, yet promising his guests to give them “for their money”.

The organizers respond to these criticisms by arguing that "most" of the profits generated by this event will go to two humanitarian organizations, Médecins sans frontières (MSF) and the Chaipattana Foundation, wanted by the King of Thailand to contribute to the rural development of his country.

Dinner was to be served to 40 privileged people, 15 paying guests and 25 guests. Several of the guests are part of the 500 largest fortunes in the world listed by "Fortune" magazine, including a casino owner in Macau and the boss of a hotel group in Taiwan. The others come from Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia but we will not know more.

For this unique meal, the chefs - or "epicurean masters, as the organizers present them - asked for the noblest and freshest ingredients: black truffles, foie gras, live oysters and lobsters from France, caviar from Switzerland, but also white truffle from Rome and artichokes from Jerusalem ...

Each dish corresponds to a legendary beverage: Romanée Conti 1985, Mouton Rothschild 1959, Château d'Yquem 1967 or even Château Palmer 1961, considered "one of the greatest wines of the XNUMXth century", dixit Alun Griffiths, expert of the British merchant Berry Bros. & Rudd. AP

actually bringing together such amounts of s ... at the same table is a feat!

[jean63]

elephant =>

You are "ripe" to read the book "How the rich destroy the planet" by Hervé KEMPF.

I opened a topic on this book, but I did not have time to enrich.