Around the world, food prices are persistently, painfully high. Puzzlingly, too. On global markets, the price of grains, vegetable oil, dairy and other agricultural commodities has fallen steadily for months. But the relief hasn’t made it to the real world of shopkeepers, street vendors and families trying to make ends meet. It's seen in a restaurant outside Nairobi that skimps on the size of popular flatbread to save on cooking oil. Cash-strapped Pakistanis are reluctantly going vegetarian, dropping beef and chicken from their diets because they can no longer afford meat. In Budapest, Hungary, a café has pulled burgers and fries off the menu to dodge the high cost of oil and beef.
