It’s another quiet day in the papers in terms of food and drink. Carlsberg and Heineken provide the main news, with both brewing giants set to make further rounds of cost-cutting. The Financial Times has the inside track.

Also in the booze sector, the Daily Telegraph has the marginally less ominous story of the Buddhist temple built from beer bottles. It's recycling meets reincarnation. Sort of.

And from the wine cellar to the bargain basement – The Times reveals that some top vintage wines are going for a song as City big-shots rein in their spending on corporate wining and dining.

However, things are holding up better in the Fairtrade sector, where record sales are being reported, according to the FT.

There is general guffawing in the press after the ‘astonishing four-letter tirade’ against Starbucks’ chief executive by business secretary Lord Mandelson. The Daily Mail expresses its horror at his use of the f-word (not ‘food’, in case you wondered) – but it’s hard to argue with the sentiment behind it. After all, isn’t it his job to stick up for UK business?

They say you can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. Now local authorities are finding that you can’t even get fat people to Asda if it involves learning something. The Mail reports on the embarrassing failure of a new scheme to educate consumers on unhealthy foods.

And that’s more or less your lot.

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