Organic food really is more delicious and better for you. But in addition to the green-washing of products ranging from cars to shampoo, the hope of organic food as a miracle-worker is often overemphasized. There's a hemp-infused sucker with raspberry essence born every minute.

I was invited to Counter in Manhattan, a vegetarian restaurant with its own version of "haute cuisine". Although I visited in the winter, the restaurant's rooftop garden is its true heart, where fruits and vegetables are harvested the rest of the year for a truly sustainable experience. It does have an impressive menu, and the faux-meatloaf with mashed potatoes was hearty and savory.

However, the most interesting part of trip was the look at the drink menu. There we saw "The World's Most Expensive Organic Martini" listed at $665. Ingredients? Organic Rose & pomegranate infused vodka, peach nectar and Iridium.

What are some of the claimed benefits of Iridium? It's an element of the periodic table usually reserved for alloys with platinum as well as having radioactive properties. But in a more New-Agey sense, it could be any one of the following: the "The Golden Tear from the Eye of Horus", the ancient Hebrew "Food of the Gods", or perhaps one part of a trilogy of elements to cure almost anything. So many claims for a few drops!

An author over at NY Magazine was able to sample the expensive elixor, and estimated its actual price by ingredient (closer to about $24).

The mixed drinks have a few distinctive names, and my friend who eloped to Tahoe over the summer surrendered to the "Married in a Fever". If you truly want to get your friends to raise their eyebrows at some drinks, hop over to Marion's X-rated martini list on the Bowery.