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Whether it's fried, baked or mashed, potatoes have traditionally been a low-cost staple food in the UK but not any more.A surge in costs is clobbering high street chippies, while in the supermarket, oven chips and the once humble baking potato are casualties of soaring grocery prices.Some fish and chip shops could opt to close after the cost of 25kg sacks more than doubled to 20, said Andrew Crook, who speaks for the industry as the president of the National Federation of Fish Friers.

Britain has the highest inflation rate in the G7, as the only nation in the group of advanced economies with a reading in double digits after last month's shock increase.With the UK appearing to be an international outlier, some economists have suggested Brexit is having an impact.On a headline basis, inflation is higher in the UK than elsewhere.

The German-born composer and conductor Matthias Pintscher didn't know what to expect when he traveled to Missouri in March to lead a series of performances with the Kansas City Symphony.He had never been to the city, nor had he worked with its orchestra.But after a few days of rehearsing and performing works by Ravel, Ligeti and Scriabin, Pintscher felt a deep connection with the ensemble.

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It's called the U.S. Open, but Fred Terrell believes it will help close the gap in Los Angeles.Terrell, a longtime Los Angeles Country Club member, sees this massive tournament as an opportunity to grow the game of golf, assist underserved communities in South L.A. and forge friendships that might never have happened.

In the month to come, Netflix in the United States will bid farewell to an eclectic mixture of genre movies, sketch comedy, reality TV and romantic comedies, as well as a beloved family feature and a documentary exploration of a peculiar corner of the entertainment industry.(Dates indicate the final day a title is available.)

Russia is ramping up pressure on civilians in occupied parts of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials, whose forces have stepped up their assaults behind enemy lines ahead of a widely expected counteroffensive.The assault could prove a critical opportunity after 14 months of war, not just for Ukraine to regain territory but also for it to try and persuade its Western allies to send still more weapons and aid.

Image Credit...Gentl and Hyers for The New York Times.Food stylist: Hadas Smirnoff.Prop stylist: Rebecca Bartoshesky.Good morning.J. Kenji Lopez-Alt went full Kenji recently and dove deep into the process of dry-brining salmon to achieve firmer, juicier, less albumin-stained cooked fillets.I admire the tenacity of Kenji's reporting, and I'm absolutely thrilled to report that while he calls for an overnight cure on the fish, I've achieved excellent results in just an afternoon's time.

Rishi Sunak is to meet with food industry leaders, as soaring prices continue to hit firms and households.The prime minister will host a "Farm to Fork" summit with delegates from farming, food production and supermarkets on Tuesday.Farmers and businesses have been hit by rising operating costs, in part caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Of all the people Keir Starmer should meet on a bank holiday visit to Blackpool, it was a former neighbour from decades ago who wanted to chat about Kentish Town.Starmer and Carol Morgan, visiting from Potters Bar, had a really warm, nostalgic chat about house numbers and where they had lived in relation to the local swimming pool as the Labour leader ordered ice-creams.

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When his wife, Diane, died two years ago, Stanley Goldstein was shattered."I couldn't even go in the house," Goldstein told me.I thought he meant it figuratively, but Goldstein went on to say he literally could not bring himself to enter the Palmdale home he had shared with his wife, who'd been suffering from Parkinson's.

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When you're 40, 70 seems old.When you get there, not so much, and I'm closing in fast.So when a reader complained that since Jan. 1, California drivers 70 and older have had to take a written test and an eye exam at a Department of Motor Vehicles office to get their licenses renewed, it got my attention.

The road to Kherson is long, straight and empty.Vacant fields rise from either side.Entering town from the west, you pass the ATB supermarket, one of the mainstays of the city's shopping.It was blown up a few weeks ago, in the middle of the day, with shoppers inside.After that lie more crushed buildings, disassembled by Russian artillery shells.

There is a lot of debate right now about when the world of generative AI will have its iPhone moment, and, in a sense, what we're actually asking is: When will all of this tech be suddenly at our fingertips?This seems to be the exact breakthrough Microsoft is attempting to usher in with its newest update to its search engine Bing.

For a few years, I've been trying to write a story about a cat.A.I. will not be able to write this, partly because the story is still inside my imagination and on a few rough pages that were originally drafted in Boston, on sheets of notebook paper, as I sat in my daughter's apartment on a hot summer day.

Dame Prue Leith will be hosting a party to celebrate the King's coronation featuring a salmon pastry centrepiece stamped with a portrait of Charles in his honour.The Great British Bake Off judge, 83, said her coronation party is inspired by the idea of the coronation Big Lunch, inviting her family and friends to enjoy the celebrations together.

A store in North Miami is officially a "President Supermarket" but a Presidente Supermarket by any other name has failed inspection just the same.Friday's failed Florida Department of Agriculture inspection of the store at 450 NE 125th St. is the company's first such inspection slip-up in Miami-Dade of 2023.

A girl as young as four years-old was allegedly assaulted by a drunk man outside a Tesco store.West Mercia Police was called to near the supermarket on Bewell Street, Hereford, at around 7.15pm on Saturday.A young girl who police say is four or five years-old was believed to be with her father when the incident happened.

Gov. Jared Polis signed three bills into law on Friday that tighten restrictions on gun purchases and possession, as well as a fourth that makes it easier for victims of gun violence to sue firearm companies.The new laws will raise the age to buy any firearm to 21 from 18, and make it illegal to sell any gun to someone younger than 21; mandate a three-day waiting period between buying and receiving a gun; and expand the state's red flag law.

A 20-year-old man from Upstate New York has been charged with making a terroristic threat after threatening to carry out a shooting at the Tops Friendly Markets in Manlius, New York, in a Discord post, according to court documents and local police.Police responded to a call Saturday from the manager of the Tops in Manlius a village in Onondaga County who said that the store got phone calls from two different people expressing their concern over statements made by a Discord user saying he was going to harm shoppers at their supermarket, according to court documents obtained by CNN affiliate WSTM.

Three quarters of supermarket-bought bread contains as much salt in a slice as a packet of ready salted crisps, health campaigners have warned.Action on Salt surveyed 242 pre-packaged loaves of sliced bread from 28 firms sold at 10 of the UK's largest supermarkets, and found three in four contained as much salt or more per slice than the 0.34g found in a packet of ready salted crisps.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The Tesco Clubcard app is set to close on April 18, 2023, with a brand new app replacing it.The current app allows users to scan a digital version of their Clubcard in stores and keep track of their points and vouchers, but from April 18 Tesco shoppers will no longer be able to use it.

U.S. consumer price increases eased slightly from January to February but still pointed to an elevated inflation rate that is posing a challenge for the Federal Reserve at a delicate moment for the financial system.The government said Tuesday that prices increased 0.4 per cent last month, just below January's 0.5 per cent rise.