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...liter of olive oil for $182? A $120 bottle of beer? I am an intolerable food snob, but I am also from middle-class New Jersey, and the upper reaches of the grocery aisles can make me want to smash something, like a tiny bottle of $145 balsamic vinegar that comes in a box with a 106-page book...
...mostly to high-end restaurants that put it in their own molds before serving it. The company has the guts to call it the Best Butter on Earth, and at 83% butterfat, it is deeply creamy, almost more like cheese than butter. And Manicardi's 25-year-old balsamic vinegar, $145 for a 100-mL bottle, was so sweet, thick and smooth that it finally made me understand what all those other balsamics have been going for. I drizzled it over ice cream and felt like a mean rich kid in an '80s movie...
...either. But I now understand how a beer can be worth $100 and that a butter junkie isn't a reprobate for dropping $50 on a fix. And if you're somehow rich enough, there may be times when kicking back and enjoying an insanely expensive vinegar makes sense...
...Vinegar $145 100-mL bottle of Manicardi balsamic...
Culinary Society President Avery A. Cavanah ’08 said that during the initial planning sessions for the event she was amazed by the “creative flourishes” favored by culinary society members, from rice vinegar to tequila...