But even those with the simplest of tastes can still enjoy the occasional exotic luxury.
It's an exotic luxury for them-they lived near a lake and occasionally would get fish and they kept chickens for eggs.
In this city of exotic luxury, mystery and magic, all was in constant flux and transition and the days had a fitful, unstable quality.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten has hit here on casual, exotic luxury and food that people want to eat.
Peach leaf curl is a thing of the past with new disease and frost-resistant varieties, so there's nothing to stop us growing these exotic luxuries in our own gardens.
And at Spice Market, he has hit on something new: casual, exotic luxury and food that people want to eat.
As I've said rationality does not really come too much into people's thinking about exotic luxuries.
Horses were an exotic luxury for rich eccentrics.
Alexandria became an increasingly important center on the trade route with the orient, as exotic luxuries were in high demand in Rome.
"These things always start out as somewhat exotic luxuries," said Professor Katz.