National kitchen gadget chain Sur La Table opens in Pittsburgh.

From: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) | Date: September 29, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Mackenzie Carpenter

Sep. 29--You've bought the Scharffen Berger chocolate with the 62 percent cacao content for that Pot de Creme you're making for your parents who are driving in from New Jersey, when suddenly, you stop cold in your tracks.

Coarsely-chopped semisweet chocolate?

How on earth does one "coarsely" chop a rock-solid bar of chocolate?

If this happens any time before the weekend, you might have to grab an ax since there is no Sur La Table kitchen store in the area selling a Danish-made "chocolate-breaking fork" for $19.50, with "six heavy duty ...

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