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Crystal Piggy

It may look like a piggy bank, but this Crystal Piggy is more likely to help you to spend money than save it. Hand-formed and hand-painted, this chubby little pig would make a darling keepsake for a little girl's room or for anybody who collects pigs. Clear crystals form his tubby silhouette, with pink accents marking his ears and tail. I'm not sure why they didn't just go ahead and make him a bank for coins, but he's still a cutie. Put together with traditional Mexican techniques he measures a generous 12" tall and sells for $1285.

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Alba Quercus Reserve, World's Most Expensive Ham

by Sandy Maple (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Dining

Look hard enough and you can find the world's most expensive anything. From water and beer, to coffee and dessert , somewhere somebody is producing a luxe version. Today, we bring you Alba Quercus Reserve, the world's most expensive ham. You can't get it yet, but when it does become available in late 2008, the ham will sell for about $160 per pound - but you will have to buy the entire 13 pound ham or nothing at all.

How does one create the world's most expensive ham? Spanish ham producer Manuel Maldonado spoils his free-range pigs with a diet of high-quality acorns. The he slaughters them and cures the meat for two years - that's twice as long as his competition in the ham business. Exclusivity will add to the allure as Maldonado will produce just 80 to 100 legs of the 2006 Alba Quercus Reserve, so named for the year the pigs were slaughtered.

How will you know you are eating the best ham in the world? The pig's acorn diet will produce a ham that is rich in flavor and has an oily texture. As Maldonado says, "Ham provides us with life."

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Limited Edition Chinese New Year Memory Cards

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Gadgets

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year and, in honor of the fact that it is the year of the pig, PQI has released two limited edition Chinese New Year USB Memory Cards. The 2GB card has a peony surrounded by "fortune pigs" and the 1GB card has a single fortune pig. Each gold card is just 3mm thick. Only a total of 1,500 cards - 1000 units of 1GB and 500 units of 2GB - will be produced. The cards, both the 1GB and 2GB versions, will retail for $510 each.

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