DailyDirt: Artisanal Foods Are Automatically Awesome

from the urls-we-dig-up dept

The price of a fancy meal often involves buying a story -- that the ingredients for the dishes were grown locally or picked fresh the same day or fed only grass or given free range of an outdoor plot of land. But sometimes the story behind expensive food-related items is a bit harder to justify. Would you pay more for water that was filtered a few more times than tap water? How about painstakingly sliced and heated bread? Here are just a few more artisanal items that might be a joke (or not).

• Artisanal ice is a thing now. Hand-cut completely transparent ice can be added to your cocktails for an additional price. These handcrafted 2 inch blocks of ice melt ever so slightly slower than regular ice cubes, so you might be able to enjoy your drinks for just a bit longer without diluting your beverage. Or you could just use chilled rocks. [url]
• If you take NYC tap water and zap it with some UV rays and ozone, wouldn't you think that water should taste different? Maybe it does, but the added processing doesn't make that water any safer or more healthy for you. [url]
• Artisanal air is bottled in small batches in San Francisco. The idea of an oxygen bar has been around for more than a few decades (if not centuries), but capturing ambient pressure air in a bottle to be inhaled in a time-shifted experience is... not always a joke. [url]

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