The canned meat product has become the emblematic food for hard times as consumers look for ways to stretch their grocery budgets.

A hole-in-the-wall organic restaurant tries an unorthodox financial improvisation, selling V.I.P. cards guaranteeing buyers discount meals for years to come.

In parts of the country where the economy has struggled longest, restaurants have been hit hardest.

A growing number of local restaurateurs are seeking shelter from the economic storm by expanding their hours of service.

Facing a Main Street dotted with vacant stores, residents of Hardwick, Vt., are betting on farming to make it the town that was saved by food.

Many New York restaurants aren’t taking their success, or for that matter their survival, for granted.

This year fewer people are ordering lobster, driving down prices and making times harder for lobster fishermen already reeling from the high cost of fuel and bait.

Champagne has no need to jump on the easy-drinking bandwagon; it’s a recession-free zone.

Soaring food costs and a surfeit of locations have hurt the casual dining sector’s bottom lines just as Americans are choosing to take more meals at home.

All across New York City, cooks, chefs and restaurateurs are devising ways to cope with the soaring costs of many of their basic ingredients.