Eight of the World’s most expensive Foods(No.8)

8. Foie gras

Foie gras is a pricey pâté made from duck or goose liver that has been fattened (to up to ten times its normal size). The flavour is rich, buttery and delicate and the product expensive but the birds pay a higher price than we ever will – the geese and ducks are force-fed corn through feeding tubes.

It’s a practice dating back to as early as 2500 BC, when the ancient Egyptians learned that many birds could be fattened through forced overfeeding. These days many countries have laws against the practice, and the production, import or sale of foie gras.