1.  And before long, like most of the big food companies, Pillsbury instituted economies up and down the production line.

2.  Big food companies have been reluctant to promise any price cuts.

3.  Big food leads to big bites, which lead to bad eating habits.

4.  But big food also has a lot of psychological appeal.

5.  But the big food news this third week of October was native truffles, black and white, in outrageous abundance.

6.  But while several big food companies are starting to offer more healthy convenience foods, change is coming slowly.

7.  If the sniffer technique catches on, Fine hopes an even bigger market will emerge for inspecting big food shipments at ports and at large processing plants.

8.  Indian food is going to be the next big ethnic food.

9.  Larry Forgione developed his patriotic American routine there, Charlie Palmer his style of big food with big flavor and David Burke his mad scientist persona.

10.  Some big U.S. food companies are expected to report lower second-quarter earnings as soaring grain costs, stiff competition and plant overhauls crimp profits.