Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Chef finds 26 pearls in single oyster


Lebanon - A Lebanese woman working in a restaurant kitchen found 26 pearls in an oyster she was preparing for the table and is to submit the find to the Guinness Book of Records. Amal Salha, 50, said she was helping out her son in his Al Fanar restaurant on the waterfront in the southern port of Tyre, when she made the astonishing find on Monday evening. "I couldn't believe it," she told AFP. "I was in the process of opening the shells when I found a number of shining pearls inside one of them," she said. "I was so startled I screamed. More... Magazine Lane - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Orbitz