Yesterday was National French Fry Day, and while everyone’s favorite potato side dish is usually pretty cheap, that’s not the case at one New York City restaurant.
Manhattan’s Serendipity 3, which just re-opened last week, just set the Guinness World Record for the most expensive French fry. The restaurant’s “Creme de la Creme Pommes Frites” sells for $200 and is made with ingredients from their many high-end vendors.
So, what makes them so pricey?
- They are made with upstate Chipperbeck potatoes.
- The thrice-cooked fries are first blanched in Dom Perignon Champagne and J. LeBlanc French Champagne Ardenne Vinegar — aged in small oak barrels.
- Once cooled, they are twice in pure goose fat from cage-free geese raised in Southwest France, first at 320˚F and again at 375˚F
- They are then seasoned with Guerande truffle salt, which costs about $17 an ounce.
- They are topped with Crete Senesi Pecorino Tartufello — made from the milk of sheep that graze on the clay-rich hills of Crete Senesi.
- And also topped with shaved black truffles foraged from Volterra and Miniato, Italy.
- Finally, they are topped with shaved black summer truffles from Umbria, Italy
But that’s not all. There’s no ketchup for these fries, it comes with a dipping sauce that is also very high-end. It’s a mornay sauce made with udder cream from A2 grass-fed Jersey cows, black truffle butter, and three-month-aged gruyere truffled Swiss raclette. It’s all served on a Baccarat crystal Arabesque plate, and then sprinkled with 23K edible gold dust at a price of $150 a gram.
Source:New York Post
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