Inflation & Prices
Pizza and Coq au Vin Costs Are Still Rising in Italy and France
- Bloomberg gauge shows French dish is 7.1% costlier to make
- Index for Pizza Margherita reveals further slowdown in August
A chef places a Pizza Margherita onto a peel at a pizzeria in Naples, Italy.
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European inflation rates may finally be slowing, but the price of ingredients to make traditional dishes in France and Italy highlights how the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation is still weighing on households.
Bloomberg’s Coq au Vin custom index, which calculates how much French families need to spend on the ingredients needed to cook the poultry dish, was up 7.1% in August from a year earlier. On the plus side, the pace has been easing for five consecutive months.