But as they begin to crop up on fine restaurant menus and luxury food websites, they are gaining foodie insider cred all the time.
More than 50% of the jobs are found in construction industry, public health sector and commercial goods industries (cosmetics, luxury food, wood, rubber, plastics).
Fewer farmers growing cocoa could also lead to higher prices in the longer term or threaten to make chocolate more of a luxury food item instead of an affordable snack.
Maybe we couldn't buy many luxury goods, but food was cheap and no one went hungry.
The sumptuous Thai food, the luxury hotels, the stunning temples, and not too far from the city, there is access to gorgeous white sand beaches.
The staff at this midtown Manhattan luxury complex handed out water and food to those stranded by the hurricane.
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Italy is famous for food as well as luxury: in January Princes, a British subsidiary of Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation, said it would buy 51% of a giant tomato-processing business in southern Italy.
For some time now Lufthansa's first-class passengers, and guests at German luxury hotels, have been offered organic food.
Much of it depends on whether prices for visas, airline tickets, accommodations and food are adjusted along with those of luxury goods.
For instance, at Agua and Food, an innovative larder-come-luxury-boutique, cured meats and Tuscan wines sit alongside pullovers, pashminas, belts and briefcases.
"Rich countries that have a lot of food and few people" might have the luxury of nursing their doubts on GMOs, Huang says.
Shangri-La Asia, which runs 71 luxury hotels around the world, has temporarily stopped importing fresh food from Japan, according to Bloomberg News.
"French industry has not succeeded, with some exceptions (luxury goods, aeronautics, nuclear, pharmaceuticals, and some food products), to move upmarket, " Mr. Gallois concluded.
The fund focuses on 8 themes: gaming, luxury goods, big box retail, popular low-cost food brands, rising incomes, real estate, healthcare and, lastly, the internet.
Some small clinics and stand-alone hospitals will undoubtedly remain successful, perhaps catering to the luxury end of health care the way gourmet restaurants do for food.
The Peninsula Chicago plays in the biggest leagues of luxury hotels, so it should not be surprising that the food, spa, service and guest rooms (except for limited electrical outlets) are all well up to snuff.
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It is basically an online luxury lifestyle publication with articles from professional writers on a variety of topics, including food, travel, wine and spirits, sports, collectibles and just about anything that would be of interest to the timepiece connoisseur.
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Because the place is so unforgiving, the luxury component comes not only in the comforting navigation of crackerjack guides and their surprisingly inventive campfire food, but in incredible discoveries.
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Meanwhile, a food official in Luliang in Shanxi has had demerits after internet users exposed photos of a luxury sofa and toilet and a double bed in his office, Xinhua reports.
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