If he or she is more interested in bites than bytes, the solution may be a gourmet food basket.

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With a fifth of Japan's arable land, Hokkaido is the country's food basket.

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But, the recent article that got my attention was from The Tennessean about a food basket survey that they did earlier this month.

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Mr. VELOSO: We give a basket of food for a month: 2, 200 calories per day.

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The result looked like a rush job: The cover was a hodgepodge that included a bowl of dog food, a picnic basket and gardening gadgets.

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You may think that having to read more in a supermarket than you would in a library or find out the genesis of the apples in your basket takes the joy out of food shopping, but for slow foodies it's a journey of discovery.

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These form a big basket of worries, enough to dampen the spirits of small-business owners in the food delivery industry.

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Inflation initially hit food prices, but will spread through the rest of the economy, as it comprises 23% of the consumption basket.

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