Thursday, September 9, 2010
Belgian Setting Chip Making Record
A Belgian maker of French fries, the country's proud national dish, has set a new world record for non-stop chip-making after frying mountains of potato strips for 83 consecutive hours.
The record by 53-year-old Chris Verschueren, owner of a French fries business, beat by 11 hours a previous record of 72 hours set in 1987 by a Briton chip chef.
"My fingers are burnt, my feet are sore and my wrist is painful," he told Belga national news agency. "But it doesn't matter, I'm going to party now."
From the time he turned on the heat Friday morning in his village of Kastel till he ran out of steam Monday night, Verschueren cooked up 1,500 kilos of chips, taking a 100-minute break after 20 hours for a shower and a stretch.
His bid to set a new record for the amount of chips sold -- 1,500 bags -- failed however.
The new world record-holder embarked on the challenge in order to raise funds for a children's hospital as his own five-year-old has been ill since birth.
Source : ABS-CBN News
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Chocolate Bath
Dark chocolate bathroom Recipe products and chocolate Spa treatments for chocoholics How about bathing with it? That’s exactly what a hot springs Spa Resort in Geneva, Switzerland. A woman tastes chocolate while enjoying the chocolate bath in the beauty saloon If you recall, this spa also offers wine. green tea and coffee baths. The water in the bath is mixed with cacao and fragrant bath powders while chocolate in its liquid form is poured over the bodies of the bathers. Couples can have fun smearing the chocolate seduction over each other’s bodies or lick it off.
White Diamond
A 196-carat white diamond recovered from the Letseng mine in Lesotho. Price Offers for the stone, sold as a rough diamond, could come in at between $7.8 million and $11.8 million (up to £7.7 million), Alison Turner, a London-based analyst at Panmure
If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, then most women’s eyes will be sparkling at the prospect of this latest find.
Stretching a dazzling 3cms in width, this 196-carat rough white stone will fetch a ‘substantial’ price when it is sold by Gem Diamonds.
The magnificent rock was found at the company’s mine in Lesotho, a small kingdom in South Africa, and is expected to produce top colour and clarity polished diamonds.
This remarkable rough diamond is expected to achieve a substantial price per carat as preliminary examinations indicate that it is expected to produce top colour and top clarity polished diamonds,' the company said in a statement.
London-listed miner Gem has found three of the world’s 20 largest diamonds since it acquired the mine in 2006 including the 603-carat Lesotho Promise, which sold for $12.4million (£8m).
The Lesotho government owns a 30 per cent stake in the mine.
The find comes a year after fellow Southern Africa diamond miner Petra unearthed a 507-carat stone near Johannesburg.
The Cullinan Heritage, the 19th largest diamond ever found, was sold to a Hong Kong jeweller in February for $35.3m (£22.9m).
The find is still dwarfed by the Cullinan Diamond which was discovered in 1905.
At 3,106 carats it was the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found but the biggest polished stone produced from it, the Great Star of Africa - 530 carats - is a teardrop shape.
The Koh-i-Noor diamond, which is part of the Crown Jewels, dates back to 1306.
The gem is a round cut but at 105 carats, it originated in India but was seized by Britain as a spoil of war in 1849.
It supposedly brings good luck to female owners and misfortune or death to any male who wears or owns it.
Source : Diamonds
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