PrintGoldpizza: The World's Most Expensive Pie?
A Scottish chef has made what might be the world's most expensive pizza:
The pizza is sprinkled with gold and topped with champagne-soaked caviar and lobster marinated in the finest cognac. Creator Domenico Crolla [right] said it was worth more than $3,700.
Mr. Crolla is tying the pie in to the upcoming James Bond movie by calling it the "Pizza Royale 007" (" 'If any pizza was made to suit 007, this is it,' said Mr Crolla.") and will auction it off on eBay to raise money for a charity, the Fred Hollows Foundation, "which works to prevent curable blindness in developing countries."
Gold-fingered chef to crack pizza record [Sydney Morning Herald, via Foodmall]
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12 Comments:
Does anyone else see this as a really lame stunt that was done endlessly? I'm going to create a pizza with a dead horse on it and I'm going to beat it. I'm going to beat the dead horse. HINT HINT
Slice Sergio at 5:42PM on 11/14/06
Yeah. They do it with pizza and burgers and all sorts of food. Who can make the craziest, most expensive. Does get a bit old after a while. —Adam
Adam Kuban at 5:54PM on 11/14/06
But... but... can you eat it? It's being auctioned off, and hoorah that the money goes to a good cause, but... does it taste good? I mean, honestly? That sounds a bit gross and un-pizza like, but to boot, when you get it, how many days since it's been made? Yuck. Or am I too practical to want to eat my pizza?
Slice Yvo at 7:58PM on 11/14/06
"Mr Crolla will create the luxury pizza at the winner's home or prepare it for them at one of his restaurants."
Slice Ben at 8:45PM on 11/14/06
Yvo: It's more like he's auctioning off the process of making the pizza. The last graf of the story: "Mr Crolla will create the luxury pizza at the winner's home or prepare it for them at one of his restaurants." —Adam
Adam Kuban at 8:47PM on 11/14/06
I am going to make a pizza that looks like Dom from DiFara. Maybe after it's made we can put it to work at his store...who knows..it might speed things up. ;) (Just trying to fuel the fire and keep the DiFara thread alive!!) hehheh
Slice Nicky M. at 4:19AM on 11/15/06
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Slice Food Site of the Day at 12:03AM on 11/20/06
You can eat gold? Ack, that doesn't sound like good eats!
Slice Ari (Baking and Books) at 4:31PM on 11/26/06
Ari: Yeah. Apparently, you can eat gold. Since it's an inert element, it doesn't react with the body. There's a guy in Park Slope who offers gold shavings on a pizza -- at Peperoncini. He calls it "L'Oro di Napoli" ("The Gold of Naples") in tribute to an early Sophia Loren film that involved pizza in some way. --Adam
Adam Kuban at 1:56AM on 11/27/06
Really, is there any one who eat Gold? Yack Yack Yack It is metal though!. If anyone want to try to make the luxury foods I presume it has to be made from eatable stuffs. Definitely not from go!!!
Slice Chuchi at 5:30PM on 03/29/07
Chuchi: It is edible. Edible gold leaf. It has pretty much no taste. It was like eating, say, dried sheets of seaweed, texturewise.
Adam Kuban at 5:58PM on 03/29/07