Author Truman Capote, who was born on this day in 1924 (he died in 1984), was known for three things: his 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s, his 1965 “non-fiction novel” In Cold Blood, and for being Truman Capote. He was a gossip-hound who did everything he could to become the kind of rich, eccentric celebrity he had always idolized.

So he would probably be very pleased at the meal that got whipped up in London to mark the opening of the West End production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (or B@T’s as I have just decided I like to call it) …

A lavish breakfast, billed as the most expensive in the world, has been unveiled to mark the start of a West End production.

The £22,000 croissant, coffee and cocktail, created by the makers of Chambord, the French black raspberry liqueur, coincides with the opening of Breakfast At Tiffany’s starring Anna Friel.

The meal includes a hand-decorated bejewelled croissant, covered in edible gold and diamonds, Bar le Duc hand-seeded redcurrant jam and a cup of Kopi Luwak coffee washed down with a Chambord and champagne cocktail worth more than £20,000.

The article doesn’t mention what this was all served on, but I’m hoping it was the bronzed carcass of some large, endangered species – after all, what says “theatre” better than eating off a dead, gold-covered panda?