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Chips are down as Britain's diners lose taste for eating out

Bankruptcies rise by a third across the sector as people tighten their belts and eat at home

Whisky distilled for 110th birthday of founder's grandchild, sells for £44,000

A rare bottle of whisky has sold for £44,000 – around £1,700 a nip.

Pepsi to axe jobs in new war on Coca-Cola

Pepsi has promised to take the fight to its arch-rival Coca-Cola, with an extra $600m (£378m) marketing and advertising blitz.

This isn't just a British Breakfast Pizza...

Vicious circles: Why these pizzas are a truly tasteless idea

News in from Marks & Spencer: to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee it is introducing some "Best of British" treats that will include the Great British Breakfast Pizza.

Hugh's kitchen nightmare: Fire at the River Cottage

A blackened stone shell is all that is left of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage cookery school after it was destroyed by a fire in the kitchen.

Tighter sanctions see Iran default on India rice payments

Iranian buyers have defaulted on payments for about 200,000 tonnes of rice from India in a sign of the mounting pressure on Tehran from a new wave of Western sanctions.

Cornwall hopes to join premier cru

An award-winning Cornwall vineyard has become the first in the UK to apply for protected status for one of its wines.

The RSPCA says the rise in free-range egg sales shows we are prepared to pay more for good animal welfare

Have we cracked our battery habit?

They are more expensive, but for the first time this year we will buy more free-range eggs than those from intensive farms. Martin Hickman reports

Farmers fear that over-production in Andalusian olive groves could close up to 80 per cent of their family-owned factories within a decade

Olive glut puts skids under oil producers at risk

A second bumper harvest could see Spanish farmers driven from the land they have worked for generations

Fresh meat tops the list for the amount of carbon emissions

Meat trade emissions equal to half of all Britain's cars

Meat and cheese top the list of foodstuffs that have a negative impact on the environment, according to research

Dairy Crest sales up but milk price hits profits

The cheese-maker Dairy Crest's like-for-like sales rose 2 per cent in the first three quarters of the year, despite a "challenging business environment". But the company warned that profits at its dairies business are being hit by the higher costs of buying milk and lower bulk cream values, which fell by 15.2 per cent last month to £1,230 a tonne.

Tea drinking becoming a mug's game

Retailers have warned that the cornerstone of British social manners, the teapot, is dying out.

Pork the growing choice for UK shoppers

Pork is becoming the meat of choice for Britain's cash-strapped households, after big jumps in beef and lamb prices over the past year.

Buoyant Starbucks gets set to open franchise stores in UK

The coffee giant Starbucks has revealed it will open its first franchise stores in the UK later this year, following one of its best December trading periods.

Brits buy Britvic drinksover Christmas

Pepsi looks to have won the cola wars over Christmas, according to its UK licensee Britvic, whose sales of fizzy drinks grew by 5.8 per cent throughout England, Scotland and Wales in the final quarter of 2011.

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