Of course, prepackaged meat costs more than the unadorned raw material.
Food price inflation hit 10.6% - up from 8.7% in May - due to meat costs, which rose 11.2% year on year.
In Naples, head for Fratelli La Bufala on 18 Via Medina, where a huge pizza covered in buffalo mozzarella and buffalo meat costs from €3.50 to €7.
Amid a thicket of slogans, one stood out: "A kilo of meat costs 100 pounds, yet a square metre in Madinaty costs half a pound," it read in Arabic.
Aidells and his co-author, Anne-Marie Ramo, guide readers through this often confusing territory and, with rising meat costs in mind, highlight cuts that deliver flavor on the cheap.
For example, average food prices in Italy are significantly higher than in Britain, while in France meat costs 23% more than in the UK, and in Germany 28% more.
The FDA must now decide whether the langostino, a two-inch (5 cm) long crustacean farmed in Chile whose meat costs less than a fifth of what lobster does, is in fact a type of crab (as Ms Snowe argues, a view shared by many marine biologists), or a "squat lobster", as its dealers prefer to call it, according to colloquial usage but in defiance of strict taxonomy.
For instance, a kilo of meat at the slaughterhouse costs 280 Kenyan Shillings, but at a butchery in an outlet like Chieni supermarket, a kilo of meat costs 400 Kenyan Shillings.
Small-scale, lovingly raised meat costs more than commodity pork, and anyway the truck often runs out of tacos, and almost everything else it sells, well before noon.
