At the time, wealthy diners were ordering the expensive, aged XO-grade Cognac at dinner and drinking it by the bottle through the meal.
Speaking of expensive, ageing star power … for the Montreal Impact, a team hanging on to the final playoff spot in the East with a nice pile of games in hand they've been carrying around pretty much all season, Didier Drogba's muchballyhooed MLS debut couldn't come soon enough.
(Simply pour a small bottle of balsamic vinegar – not an expensive, aged one – into a saucepan, warm over a low heat and leave to cook down until it's reduced enough to coat the back of a spoon. Pour into a container and leave to cool before covering. There's no need to refrigerate it.
The Red Sox are bound to make another bad move at the trade deadline, and what better target than an expensive aging player?
It's the pork version of a skirt steak (however, if you can find it, the price tag more resembles an expensive aged rib eye), well-marbled and, when marinated in olive oil, thyme and garlic and grilled by an Iron Chef, probably the single best piece of pork I've ever had!
A dripping, wall-height rock waterfall adds to the sense of sitting in the waiting room of an expensive New Age spa.
Even if British queasiness about mixing politics and cash led to some spending and donation caps, we would still move into an expensive new age of cold-calling, multiple mail-outs and unprecedented political advertising.
Life gets more expensive with age, after all, and expectations increase with prosperity.
Should I invest in an expensive anti-ageing moisturiser?
Offshore oilfields are expensive, and ageing ones especially so.
