{"id":17175,"date":"2013-11-07T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/la-perle-doman-the-showstopping-most-expensive-dessert-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2013-11-07T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T09:01:00","slug":"la-perle-doman-the-showstopping-most-expensive-dessert-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/11\/la-perle-doman-the-showstopping-most-expensive-dessert-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"La Perle D\u2019oman, The Showstopping Most Expensive Dessert In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span>The Sultanate of Oman, Ministry of Tourism joined forces with Cerrone Jewellery, Etihad Airways, BMW and the Arab Bank of Australia to sponsor a glamorous evening in Sydney showcasing the finest elements of Arabic food, fashion and culture at the 3<\/span><sup>rd<\/sup><span>\u00a0Magnificence of the Middle East Ball.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>A special feature on the night was the unveiling of the most talked about dessert in town \u2013 the Pearl of Oman, valued at $500,000. The delicious sweet featured a delicate meringue tiara around a ball of white chocolate-covered pomegranate jelly on a bed of silver-encrusted pistachio sponge. The core was liquid gold. For finishing touches a smattering of 24-carat gold leaf and 60 Kimberly Diamonds were donated by celebrity jeweller Nick Cerrone. French chef Vincent Gadan described his creation as \u201cthe most luxurious dessert I\u2019ve ever seen\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Other highlights of the evening included a tempting array of dishes prepared by Australia\u2019s finest chefs: Shane Delia, Matt Moran, Shannon Benett and Vincent Gadan as well as the entertaining MC of the evening, Lisa Wilkinson, who was appropriately attired in a Basil Soda black gown. The haute couture designer Basil Soda could not attend on the evening, however, his 2013\/2014 Spring Collection was showcased direct from Paris. David Jones shall be selling his latest collection as of December this year.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Chefs\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Chefs.jpg\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Chefs.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Edible Version\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Edible-Version.jpg\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Edible-Version.jpg\" width=\"180\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sultanate of Oman, Ministry of Tourism joined forces with Cerrone Jewellery, Etihad Airways, BMW and the Arab Bank of Australia to sponsor a glamorous evening in Sydney showcasing the finest elements of Arabic food, fashion and culture at the 3rd\u00a0Magnificence of the Middle East Ball. A special feature on the night was the unveiling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}