Why the era of cheap food is over
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Corn, milk, bread, and other farm products hit record high prices in 2006 â and will likely keep rising in 2008.
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I just took a coupon off my refrigerator that expired Jan. 14. I don't even remember cutting it out, but that's no surprise. If I happen to clip a coupon, I'm more than likely to forget about it until it's too old to use.
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Those $70 lunches and $14 "Death By Chocolate" desserts are gone from the executive menu at the government's legal aid program for the poor. Expensive hotels, limousine services and first-class travel will become rare or disappear, too.
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Gold is no longer the metal of choice for the adornment of the ruling class.
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Shares in Premier Foods  fall on concerns over problems caused by high raw material prices.
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Cheese sandwiches and pizzas may no longer be a cheap snack. A combination of freakish weather and runaway global demand for milk is sending the price of cheese soaring.
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UK households spend more on housing and less on food, reversing the pattern seen 50 years ago, figures show.
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A convergence of trends is making the industry look a little ragged.
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Higher costs in China could spell the end of an era of ultra-cheap goods.
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When 2012 hits, stores can no longer sell the cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs that are fixtures in most homes.
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It's time for Gen-X to take a shopping "time-out."
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At a time when resource conservation is at the forefront, the days of eating 200 pounds of meat a year may also be on the way out.
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WASHINGTON -- Who says food fads can't last? Thousands of years before the advent of Tex-Mex, ancient Americans were spicing up stew with red hot chili peppers.
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John Vidal reports on why food prices are rising and the developing world is facing catastrophe
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Smokestacks are gone from the New York factory in the 21st century, with specialty companies and makers of food products, especially for the ethnic market, in their place.
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Food donations to the world's hungry have fallen to their lowest level since 1973 as surging grain and shipping prices outpace the aid budgets of rich nations.
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The market has tanked ... think before you jump in.