who is hungry?

This post is an hors d’oeuvre to the one that follows: who is hungry in Canada?

• At Masa restaurant in Manhattan the set menu costs $480 for one, tip including, taxes and beverages extra: an 8-oz serving of sake, for instance, comes to $24.
• There’s a two-month waiting list at The French Laundry in the Napa Valley for their “culinary journey” at $250 a pop; everything else is extra.
• El Bulli restaurant in Spain (Barcelona?) charges $290 for their 30-course dinner–yes, thirty.
• “Ingredient-driven” Tom Colicchio, judge on TV’s Top Chef, has been known to fly produce from the Santa Monica Farmers Market in California to his Craft restaurant in New York.

• With a gift of $16, World Food Programme (WFP–a UN Agency) can purchase a 25 kilo sack of rice. To ensure people relying on food aid for survival receive the minimum 2,100 kilocalories necessary to lead a healthy life, WFP rations include vegetable oil, pulses, cereal blends, bread, sugar and salt.

   

source for all but the last point: Forbes Magazine