August 25, 2020
With champagne sales plunging because of pandemic lockdowns, growers and Houses like LVMH are behaving somewhat like OPEC.
August 11, 2020
A Consumer Price Index (CPI) that went up by just .6 percent during the past year hides a much larger increase in some grocery prices.
June 18, 2020
Because a Covid-19 basket of goods and services has a different inflation rate from the CPI basket, the cost of living might not be what we think it is.
June 7, 2020
A Chicago restaurant's pandemic takeout plan transformed the limitations of the lockdown rules into a creative opportunity.
May 27, 2020
Ranging from tacos to dumplings to General Tso's chicken, our state-by-state quarantine takeout preferences are different.
May 15, 2020
Faced with isolated communities, two grocers, separated by thousands of miles, support their customers in a rather similar way.
May 12, 2020
Except for one very clever Amsterdam eatery, the restaurant industry has been hit exceedingly hard by the coronavirus lockdown.
April 26, 2020
The firms that produce craft beer and the farmers that grow Idaho potatoes have somewhat similar pandemic supply problems.
April 17, 2020
Because of COVID-19 lockdowns, we care more about those unclear food expiration dates that let us know when to trash what we store in the refrigerator.
March 23, 2020
As business closings multiply, redeploying food from restaurants to supermarket consumers has required changes along the supply chain.
February 2, 2020
While many of us think that restaurants sell us food, economists point out that they are actually renting space to diners for several hours.
January 31, 2020
Avocado Hand, a malady related to guacamole preparation, will increase because of Super Bowl LIV and USMCA avocado consumption.