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Are you hungry? How about a pizza? Just be careful if you go to Bella Napoli， an Italian restaurant in the Scottish city of Glasgow. If you order a pizza there, it could cost you more than ￡2,000 (or 30,000 Yuan).

Chef Domenico Crolla has created what he hopes will be the world's most expensive pizza. The base of the pizza is handmade dough¹ and the toppings include caviar, Scottish smoked salmon², lobster³ marinated in cognac and venison medallions – all apparently⁴ very pricey nibbles⁵ that James Bond enjoys. The pizza even has thin slices of gold on it as its final touch.

Chef Crolla has dubbed⁶ his creation 'The Pizza Royale 007' in honour of the new James Bond film which has just been released in Britain. The Chef said 'If any pizza was made to suit 007, this is it.'

But what made him want to create such an expensive meal? For Domenico, it's all about charity. He's hoping to raise money for a good cause. He's going to be donating all the money for the pizza to The Fred Hollows Foundation, a charity which helps blind people in developing countries.

His pizza will be on eBay (the online auction⁷ website) until the 19th of November, giving people around the world the chance to bid for this one-off creation.

If you're the lucky winning bidder⁸, you'll have the option of having the pizza prepared for you in one of Domenico's restaurants in Glasgow or having him deliver it to your home.

In an exclusive interview with BBC Learning English he said he would even hand deliver this pizza to China so that he could set another world record for the longest distance ever travelled to deliver a pizza. He visited Hong Kong as part of his 40th birthday celebrations in June 2006 and says he's very keen to visit China again soon.

But if even a slice of this pizza is too expensive for you, you could instead try one of Scotland's other famous dishes – a deep fried Mars bar. That's a cold chocolate bar deep fried in batter⁹ which you can buy for the more modest price of just 75 pence (or about 12 Yuan).

GLOSSARY 词汇表

created 创造

base 面底   

handmade dough 手和面

caviar 鱼子酱 

smoked salmon 熏烤三文鱼

lobster marinated in cognac 优质白兰地柯纳克淹泡的龙虾 

venison medallions （加工后成方圆形的）鹿肉  

pricey nibbles 昂贵的小吃   

dubbed 命名 

to suit 适应  

charity 慈善事业  

a good cause 公益事业    

blind people 盲人

developing countries 发展中国家 

to bid 投标/出价竞买 

one-off creation 一次性举创 

exclusive 独家的  

deep-fried in batter 裹面糊油炸的

set another world record 创新世界纪录  

modest price 低价