24k Gold wings

New York is known for some pretty extravagant foods. But did you ever imagine that wings, the food you order for a football game, can be just as elaborate, especially when they are dressed in gold flakes?

We naturally had to try the latest dish in the gold food craze: 24-karat gold chicken wings (you know how much we love our chicken wings, after all). Served at The Ainsworth, a New York-based restaurant with locations in New Jersey, Kansas City, and Nashville, the gilded chicken is a collaboration with Jonathan Cheban, who refers to himself as @foodgod ( https://www.instagram.com/foodgod/ ) on Instagram.

When celebrities are seeking the hottest food items, restaurants and places to travel they immediately call upon the Foodgod for guidance. This is the approach Brian Mazza, President of Paige Hospitality Group is taking. I had the opportunity to speak with Mazza about his decision to collaborate with the Foodgod. Mazza said he "saw what he did with David for the Foodgod dessert at Komodo" and decided it would be great to team up with his friend of 12 years to create a new menu item. He added that he has a "love of gold in general" (which was apparent with his gold kicks). Of course his goal is to create an item that is finger licking "gold," but Mazza also mentioned the importance of how "they are going to be on Instagram."

The result of this collaboration is heavenly: 24-Karat gold-coated chicken wings

To make this golden chicken, the meat is brined for 12 hours, coated with a dry rub, baked, flash-fried, smothered in a gold marinade with extra honey barbecue sauce, and finished with a layer of gold dust, according to the restaurant and can be purchased in a basket of 10 ($45), 20 ($90), or 50 pieces ($1,000), the last of which is served with a bottle of Ace of Spades champagne.

There's one question to ask: Why?

Brian Mazza, president of Paige Hospitality (which owns The Ainsworth) told CNN, "We wanted to create something over-the-top that's never been done before, and you've never seen or tasted anything like it before." Consider that a mission accomplished.

Now one more question that arises, “Is Gold safe to eat?”

Gold needs to be in its purest 24k form to be safe to eat . Gold leaf with a smaller carat value has more impurities and is less safe to eat. The F.D.A. hasn’t rigorously studied the effects of the consumption of gold, but the E.U. classifies it as harmless. It is flavorless and odorless. The problem is,it tastes nothing. Your body can’t digest it and it has no nutritional value. Gold is considered "biologically inert," meaning it passes through the digestive tract without being absorbed. Your body Instagrams it, eats it, metabolizes it, and excretes it.

Casey neistat too had it !!!!

Wait ..!! Little more information is no harm ofcourse : 

The eating of gold (chrysophagy? aurivorism?) dates back to long before the stunt-food era—it has been consumed by medieval alchemists, pharaonic Egyptians, and Victorian aesthetes. The legendary Milanese chef Gualtiero Marchesi, one of the fathers of modern Italian cuisine, famously served saffron risotto topped with squares of gold leaf, an opulent echo of the rice’s vivid yellow hue. (The dish was so iconic that he wore it, in tiny replica, as a lapel pin.) Still, the megaphone of social media has allowed the recreational ingestion of gold to reach its peak as a form of conspicuous consumption. A person orders a platter of golden chicken wings to demonstrate that she is the sort of person who orders a platter of golden chicken wings. In that sense, the transfer of metallic dust from the chicken to the eater’s lips is ingenious: anyone who orders the dish gets a ready-made selfie out of it, too.

Source for this last segment : The Newyorker @ https://www.newyorker.com/