Food Buzz Cointreau sells special instructions and tools to create solid iridescent pearls of Cointreau liqueur with edible flakes of 24-carat gold inside. It’s the future of booze! I’m still getting over the novelty of Jell-o shots.
Food Buzz A New York hotel is serving haute-cuisine versions of the frozen dinners from your childhood. I hope that $30 mac-n-cheese is tasty! For the same price, you could get 10 Hungry Man dinners — mmm, Salisbury steak.
Food Buzz A Burger King location in London has launched a Kobe Beef burger that sells for $200. ‘The Burger’ as it is known, features Wagyu beef, white truffles, Pata Negra ham slices, Cristal onion straws, Modena balsamic vinegar, lambs lettuce, pink Himalayan rock salt, organic white wine and shallot infused mayonnaise in an Iranian saffron and white truffle dusted bun. All the proceeds from the burger go to a children’s charity, but I still can’t see spending $200 on a burger without cheese.
Culture Buzz If you’re rich, your pets should think they are, too. No expense of construction or pet-sustaining technology should be spared! Actually, a lot of these seem like they would just freak most dogs out.
Business Buzz A new chain of high-priced luxury movie theaters is set to open soon. Recession what? Mortgage crisis who? This proves yet again that for a certain segment of the country, we are living through another Gilded Age. Class issues aside, those seats sound comfy, and having a call button for a waiter to bring you a fresh drink also doesn’t sound too bad.