Last Saturday in Bangkok, 15 dimwits (epicureans if you prefer), who have altogether too much money and too little wit for their own good (and probably not enough connections to get themselves invited) got together with 25 other lucky folks (who managed to get themselves invited) for a meal of a lifetime.

A 10 course meal complete with the best vintage wine was prepared by 6 three-star Michelin chefs from France, Germany and Italy to the tune of $25,000 per head. You got it right folks... not $250, not $2,500, but $25,000. The menu consisted of mouth watering and complicated sounding dishes like "tartar of Kobe beef with Imperial Beluga caviar and Belon oysters" and "mousseline of 'pattes rouges' crayfish with morel mushroom infusion."

It is really amazing how much people are willing to spend for food--amazingly outrageous! I mean how much of a good thing can you take? After the 4th or 5th course, I'd be too full and maybe even too drunk to get on with the rest of the courses. Now, if it were a week, like a food festival of some sort, say 2 courses each night, it'd still be expensive at $5,000 per evening, but much less ridiculous. I hope no one died of gluttony--it is a deadly sin after all.

I suppose it does take a bit of money to be a gourmet. Care to give it a try JC?

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