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Analysis: Americans to Face Tougher 2013 on Rising Prices, Taxes

Consumers will have to dig deeper into their pockets next year to pay for costlier healthcare, more expensive grocery bills and higher taxes, an extra drag on the country's already slow-moving economy.
  • Film Shows Food as Therapy for Two Holocaust Survivors

    Scenes from the new documentary about two octogenarian friends living together in Berlin are warm, but the hunger to learn more about their past as Holocaust survivors creates a suspenseful undercurrent throughout the film
  • PepsiCo Sells 51 Percent Stake in Vietnam Beverage Business

    PepsiCo (PEP.N) said Japanese beverage company Suntory Holdings Ltd will acquire a 51 percent equity stake in the company's beverage business in Vietnam.
  • Cross-Cultural Communiqué: Chinese Food Etiquette

    Eating in china is all about enjoying the food and the company. But the one thing that novices tend to focus on when starting their China eating adventure is their skill with chopsticks.
  • Modern Etiquette: Guidelines for Giving Toasts

    In our shrinking world, you might discover that people from other countries are more comfortable making toasts because it is a more natural part of their culture than ours. If you know that you are expected to give a toast in a formal setting, by all means rehearse it.
  • Dubai Cafe "Camel-ccino" New Take on Bedouin Staple

    A Dubai cafe, trying to give a modern twist to an old Bedouin tradition, has started putting camel products on its menu.
  • Meat-Loving Thais Turn Vegetarian for Festival

    Thailand is not an easy country in which to be vegetarian. But once a year the country's avid meat eaters lay down their spicy meat stir-fries in favour of vegetables and meat substitutes.
  • Special Report: Food, beverage industry pays for seat at health-policy table

    WHO's mission as the public health arm of the United Nations ranges from stanching communicable diseases such as malaria and AIDS to battling what the U.N. considers the latest "global epidemic": chronic ailments such as diabetes and heart disease caused primarily by unhealthy diets.
  • McDonald's sales growth cools, chilled by competition

    The world's biggest fast-food chain is battling more than the bleak global economy that is curbing appetites for purchases of its hamburgers, salads and smoothies. Resurgent chains like Burger King Worldwide Inc (BKW.N) and Yum Brand Inc's (YUM.N) Taco Bell now are challenging McDonald's in the United States with revamped menus, celebrity endorsers and a renewed focus on low-priced food.
  • Mexico's Carstens says food price rise is transitory

    Mexico's central bank chief Agustin Carstens said on Friday a rise in food prices that has driven up inflation was transitory and would be difficult to contain with monetary policy.
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