FOOD BUZZ: Cointreau sells special instructions and tools to create solid iridescent pearls of Cointreau liqueur with edible flakes of 24-carat gold inside. It’s the future of booze! I’m still getting over the novelty of Jell-o shots.

The Best Links:

1. This Makes Me Want to Start a Laboratory/Bar
2. Seen in London’s Trendiest Bars and Restaurants
3. Cointreau Will Show a Select Group of 40 Bartenders How to Make a Caviar Cocktail
4. The Official Page for Cointreau Caviar
5. The Elegance of Cointreau Caviar Makes It Ideal for Weddings
6. Have You Had Your Caviar Cocktail Today?

FOOD BUZZ: A New York hotel is serving haute-cuisine versions of the frozen dinners from your childhood. I hope that $30 mac-n-cheese is tasty! For the same price, you could get 10 Hungry Man dinners — mmm, Salisbury steak.

The Best Links:

1. Comfort Food, At a Price
2. “Free-range chicken dipped in buttermilk and cornmeal and fried to a golden crisp.”
3. A “hilariously awful idea”

FOOD BUZZ: A Burger King location in London has launched a Kobe Beef burger that sells for $200. ‘The Burger’ as it is known, features Wagyu beef, white truffles, Pata Negra ham slices, Cristal onion straws, Modena balsamic vinegar, lambs lettuce, pink Himalayan rock salt, organic white wine and shallot infused mayonnaise in an Iranian saffron and white truffle dusted bun. All the proceeds from the burger go to a children’s charity, but I still can’t see spending $200 on a burger without cheese.

The Best Links:

1. Food For Thought: Where’s The Beef
2. Burger King Goes Black Tie
3. Haute cuisine rapide
4. Quite a Burger
5. Kobe Burger King
6. Burger King to Serve Kobe Beef
7. Burger King Reveals Kobe Beef Burger
8. Burger King Launches World’s Most Expensive Hamburger

CULTURE BUZZ: If you’re rich, your pets should think they are, too. No expense of construction or pet-sustaining technology should be spared! Actually, a lot of these seem like they would just freak most dogs out.

The Best Links:

1. Makes Homelessness Seem Even More Egregious
2. Unclear What Pet Would Ever Feel Happy Cooped Up in This Tiny Box
3. See the Pet Pavillion in Action
4. Put in Your Poodle on Medium for 2 Minutes: Yummy Popcorn!
5. Rachel Hunter With Her Dogs, Custom-Built Doghouse
6. Makers of Fine Luxury Dog Homes

BUSINESS BUZZ: A new chain of high-priced luxury movie theaters is set to open soon. Recession what? Mortgage crisis who? This proves yet again that for a certain segment of the country, we are living through another Gilded Age. Class issues aside, those seats sound comfy, and having a call button for a waiter to bring you a fresh drink also doesn’t sound too bad.

The Best Links:

1. Luxi-Movies Are Coming Soon To a Theater Near You
2. Worth It to Ensure There Are No Crying Kids in the Movie? Yes!
3. Dinner Will Be Available, But the Price Doesn’t Include Food
4. 40-Seat Maximum. Bar. Valet Parking. This Sounds Like A Fancy Tribeca Restaurant
5. “Rip Off!!”