Food

In a mood for the ultimate salty/sweet treat? Try a milk or dark chocolate bar with applewood smoked bacon and alder wood smoked salt, from the boutique chocolate emporium Vosges.

Free food and swag for the lucky eaters who can grab a seat at the Top Chef Mobile Tour, which kicks off this week, visits 21 cities around the country and features the Season 6 cheftestants.

Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle of Minimiam imagine tiny worlds in every bite of food. These carefully posed edibles look like tiny landscapes once populated with their miniature residents.

Make no mistake: the wines being produced at Matanzas Creek in the Bennett Valley, like this limited cuvee 2007 Journey Chardonnay, can be pricey, but are refined and memorable.

Gummy bear shot glasses? The fact that it took 30,000 gummy bears to make the brick wall and that the glasses apparently are “freakin’ delicious” is reason enough to check out Vat19′s goofy video.

This ridiculous creation from KFC does away with that pesky bread, sandwiching two slices of bacon and Monterey Jack cheese between two deep-fried chicken filets. Clog your arteries starting 4/12.

The sole ingredient that gives this psychotic Pure Cap hot sauce its heat is pure capsaicin, the active component of chili peppers. Strap a helmet on and use sparingly (in that order).

Available 3/24/10: Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet’s Artisan Fire Pizza Oven not only blasts your pie at temperatures as high as 800 degrees, but can cook it as quickly as 2 minutes.

We’re not sure if they’ll help you eat faster, but these Carbon Fiber Chopsticks definitely add some dark bling to the dinner table; they’re made with aerospace CF and include a rest.

While we liked Dodge’s Man’s Last Stand ad, this Couch Potato Groom wedding cake topper shows that it’s better to lay some ground rules early on; exasperated bride sold separately.

Competitors will need to play catch-up with Heinz’s new ketchup: Dip & Squeeze is an uber-packet that holds 3x more than 9g packets and can be (you guessed it) dipped or squeezed.

Pigskin on a plate doesn’t sound very appetizing, but with Super Bowl less than a month away this salami Sausage Football may be a perfect handoff to hungry party guests.

We’re continuously hungry on the interval [now, infinity], but this pi*z*z*a t-shirt is a not-so-discrete solution for maximizing our stomach volume; we’ll have an isometric slice of pi, please.

It’s the meal that never ends: while not a true Mobius strip, George Hart’s Mobius Bagel is a topological godsend for maximizing spreadable surface area; in other words, mo’ cream cheese.

No need to pass the salt with these Salt & Pepper Bots: simply wind ‘em up and they’ll dutifully march across the table to dispense spices–either that, or enslave your dinner guests.

No three keys strike as much terror into PC user’s hearts, but these CTRL+ALT+DEL Cups are all about relaxing with a cup of tea–ostensibly while your PC BSODs itself into oblivion.

Short of drinking it, Bacon Jam is the fastest pork-to-bloodstream pathway around; chunkier than Baconnaise, its onion and spice mix makes it ideal for BBQs, burgers, and bypasses.

Make no bones about it: Fred’s Fossiliced ice cube trays are more Ice Age than Jurassic Park, but we’re chill with the idea of serving up Triceratops tonics and T-Rex tequilas.

Yes, we have a man crush on Alton Brown; Good Eats: The Early Years packs 140 recipes and 1000+ pics from his Food Network TV show, known for its geeky approach to cooking.