The Fuzzy Chef & Friends

Year in, year out, the catalogs come. The maniacally cheerful marketeers at Williams-Sonoma (W-S), Sur Le Table (SLT), Chef's Catalog and others do their best to get us to run up our credit card balances for frivolous and often non-functional kitchen gadgets. Or, as Becky once summed it up:

"Useless kitchen gadget 101. We don't know why you'd buy this, but we think enough suckers will find the picture irresistable that we're pricing it at at easy $200.00. Just for you."

Read on for a few of The Catalog People's excesses this holiday season.