1.  It was absolutely the worst food I have ever had.

2.  Ellard Malindi, the top administrator in the ministry of agriculture, said that from November to February Malawi traditionally suffers its worst food shortages.

3.  Morton said the worst food shortages were believed to be occurring in the cold, land-scarce, heavily urbanized northeast.

4.  North Korea will face its worst food shortage this summer unless it gets outside help, a South Korean agricultural expert said Wednesday.

5.  Soldiers will help airlift rice to three parched southern provinces suffering from one of the worst food shortages to hit the Philippines in years, an official said Sunday.

6.  The closed areas are thought to be suffering the worst food shortages.

7.  The deadline came as the country faced one of its worst food crises.

8.  The worst food shortages generally have occurred not because of drought or poor harvests, but because of the disruptions of war and displacement of populations.

9.  To cap it all, severe floods last summer wiped out much of the autumn harvest and provoked the worst food crisis since the end of the Korean War.

10.  Zimbabwe is this year suffering one of the worst staple food shortages in living memory.