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• Why Your Super Bowl Party Will Cost More This Year

  

  Chicken wing prices have spiked, making this year's Super Bowl parties more expensive than last year. Maybe it's time to serve bacon instead of wings!

• 'Wild and Woolly' Twinkies Auction Expected: Hostess CEO

  

  The bids for the snack cakes of bankrupt Hostess Brands will be intensely competitive, CEO Greg Rayburn predicted in a "First on CNBC" interview.

• Rejoice Twinkie Lovers, Iconic Brand Saved! 

  

  CNBC's Kayla Tausche talks with Greg Rayburn, Hostess Brands CEO, about how the company will break up its brands, when it holds a full auction in court on March 13th.

• Hostess Near Choosing Stalking Horse Bidders 

  

  Hostess continues to find bidders for its various assets in bankruptcy. CNBC's Kayla Tausche reports the latest.

• Taste for Shark Fin Fades Slightly in China

  

  Summer Palace, a restaurant tucked inside one of the capital's most expensive hotels, offers the standard selection of Chinese delicacies: abalone, braised sea cucumber and imperial bird's nest soup, which sells for about 700 renminbi, or more than $100, a serving. Noticeably absent, however, is a mainstay of Chinese cuisine — shark fin soup. The NYT reports.

• Cow Smuggling ... It's How Bangladesh Gets Its Beef

  

  Beef is a delicacy in Bangladesh, but Hindu-majority India refuses to sell their sacred cows. The demand is so high, however, that a dangerous $920 million cow smuggling trade has popped up. CSM reports.

• J.M. Smucker to buy back more shares

  ORRVILLE, Ohio-- The J. M. Smucker Co. said Friday that it may buy back up to five million more shares. The company also declared its regular quarterly dividend of 52 cents per share, which will be paid March 1 to shareholders of record as of Feb. 15.

• Super Bowl Wings Will Be Spicy and Pricey This Year

  

  Last summer's drought has driven up the price of those Super Bowl party chicken wings. Chicken prices were up 6 percent in December, versus a year earlier - that's more than triple overall food prices.

• UPDATE 2-Starbucks stays hot in U.S., Asia; shares rise

  Jan 24- Starbucks Corp reported stronger-than-expected sales in the United States and Asia despite economic uncertainty worldwide, offsetting unexpected costs including the bill for cleaning up after Superstorm Sandy.

• UPDATE 2-Russia may block some N. American meat over ractopamine

  MOSCOW/ CHICAGO, Jan 23- Russia may impose a temporary ban on the import of some U.S. and Canadian beef and pork products as of Feb. 4, amid concerns that they may contain a drug used to make animal muscle more lean.

• ANALYSIS-America's breadbasket banking on April showers

  CHICAGO, Jan 23- Farmers in America's corn belt are counting on spring rains to recharge reserves that were drawn down during last year's worst drought in over a half century, which left soil moisture in top producer Iowa at a 27- year low as the new year begins.

• CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-McDonald's U.S. December sales help 4th-qtr profit

  Jan 23- McDonald's Corp reported an unexpected rise in sales in December at established U.S. restaurants, helping to lift its fourth-quarter profit above analysts' estimates. McDonald's shares rose to $93.55 in premarket trading, up from Tuesday's New York Stock Exchange close of $92.95.

• UPDATE 3-Emerging market sales lift Unilever shares to new high

  LONDON, Jan 23- Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever Plc/ NV's share price hit an all-time high on Wednesday as growth beat expectations, propelled by strong sales of its haircare products and soaps in emerging markets.

• UPDATE 3-McDonald's says January restaurant sales will fall

  Jan 23- McDonald's Corp on Wednesday forecast a decline in global restaurant sales for January, as it and other fast-food chains fight for customers who are spending cautiously during continued economic uncertainty.

• Heinz takes 3Q charge for Foodstar payment

  PITTSBURGH-- H.J. Heinz Co. said that an early payment to a company it bought a Chinese soy sauce maker from in 2010 will hurt its fiscal third-quarter earnings by 4 cents per share.

• Annie's voluntarily recalls frozen pizza

  BERKELEY, Calif.-- Annie's Inc. is voluntarily recalling seven kinds of frozen pizza sold nationwide over the possible risk that metal fragments made their way into the dough. Annie's said that while no metal has been found in its finished product, it initiated the recall as a precaution.

• McDonald's running low on quick fixes for U.S. sales

  *Christmas Day openings, McRib schedule boosted U.S. in December. Jan 22- McDonald's Corp is running out of quick-fix strategies for stemming declines in U.S restaurant sales inflicted by tougher competition for customers who are pinching pennies in a weak economic recovery. McDonald's posts December sales and fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday.

• UPDATE 2-Sales at Chili's parent Brinker miss Street forecast

  *CEO says Brinker has won market share. Jan 22- Chili's Grill& Bar parent Brinker International Inc on Tuesday reported slower-than-expected quarterly sales growth at established restaurants as fewer diners came through its doors, sending its shares down more than 4 percent.

• UPDATE 1-Chili's parent Brinker misses Wall Street revenue forecast

  *CEO says Brinker has won market share. Jan 22- Chili's Grill& Bar parent Brinker International Inc on Tuesday reported quarterly sales at established restaurants that rose less than expected despite help from higher menu prices, lifting profit only modestly.

• Deutsche Bank commodities move draws fire from campaigners

  FRANKFURT, Jan 21- Food campaigners criticised Deutsche Bank for abandoning a moratorium on trading new commodities products, arguing that financial speculators continue to cause price rises for vital foods.