"chocolate fountain" news and stories

My local town, Henley-on-Thames, has just hosted a food festival. Two days of, well, eating and drinking. These two sisters had great fun at a chocolate fountain; sadly through the palm trees this was the best shot I could get but certainly captures a moment.

[Photo Andrew Barrow]

While I consider my knife as the coolest "gadget" in my kichen (or maybe my rice cooker), there are people out there who love to fill their drawers and countertops with electronic kitchen gadgets (and whether these gadgets actually save time or energy is questionable). Forbes has a list of their favorite kitchen gadgets, ranging from a $5 ice cream "saver" to a

• Tassimo Hot Beverage System: $170 for an uber fancy coffee-maker. Hey, if you spend $4 a day on your uber fancy double tall half caff half decaf steamed milk no foam with a splash of almond syrup mocha at GiveUsYourBucks, then this will pay itself off in less than 45 days!
• Kupperbush Induction Wok: For $3,500, Yan doesn't have to cook. You can!
• Sephra Chocolate Fondue Fountain: $100. Kinda sexy. If you're into that kind of stuff.
• Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Protector: $5.50 to protect your pint of Chubby Hubby from freezing over, but the question is, who doesnt finish a pint of Ben & Jerry's in one sitting?
• Whirlpool Polara Refrigerator Oven: We saw something like this earlier this year. $1400
• Sharp AX700 Super-heated Steam Oven: This is pretty cool, actually, until we see that it's $1400.
• LG LRSC26980: Really now, does it have to have that many numbers and letter in the name? For $2999 it sure does!
• Back to Basics Egg and Muffin Maker: $50 so you can make eggs and toast your bread at the same time.
• Intelliscan Bluetooth Wine Collector's Bar Code Scanner: For the wine geek. $300.

The chocolate fountain is now officially the totem of faux-luxe extravagance and over-the-top pop materialism. Why? David Beckham bought one for his lovely wife, Victoria (a.k.a. Posh Spice). Evidently, though, it wasn't his idea - he used a personal shopper from Harrod's.

Victoria's chocolate fountain was stocked with Belgian chocolate and delivered with fruits and assorted sweets for dipping. No word on whether those Beckham boys - Romeo, Brooklyn and Cruz - got their own miniature versions.

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