You have to be a hardcore foodie to
appreciate Gilt Taste. The new website from former editor-in-chief of the
defunct Gourmet magazine, Ruth Reichl
is not for the faint of palate. The site is primarily a place where a connoisseur
can find difficult to track down items in the categories of meat, seafood,
cheese and dairy, pantry, sweets, produce and equipment.
Some of the more interesting items
include D’Artagan Spanish Mangalica Ham with a carving stand for $549, a 14 oz.
can of Black Winter Truffle Juice for $112 and Primizie Jumbo White Asparagus
at $36 for two pounds.
If you wanted to pick up a box of
John & Kira’s Chocolate Ladybugs, you’re out of luck. The boxes of nine
sold out at the price of $29. So did both wheels of Murray’s Cheese (the
Paglierina and Salva Cremasco) and the Cortez
Mullet Company’s Salt-cured roe.
If
that all sounds like Greek to you, then you might feel like skipping Gilt
Taste. But there is something there for people who are simply curious. Products aside, Reichl wanted to
make it clear in her introductory letter to visitors that this isn’t just an
online market, it’s a new Internet magazine. “We want to
tell you the stories of the people who create them and inspire you with
delicious new ways to use them.
To that end gourmands can delight in
tales like Confessions of a Chocolate Hater and The Thrill of the Mushroom
Hunt. We told you that you really had to be into eating to dig this site.
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