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French Get Cuisine Shock as Cost of Coq au Vin Soars

  • Chicken dish with wine shows food prices outpacing inflation
  • Index shows 14.7% increase in January from a year earlier
Coq au vin.

Coq au vin.

Photographer: Deb Lindsey/The Washington Post/Getty Images

The cost of preparing France’s traditional coq au vin dish has risen to a record, showing how inflation has impacted the family dinner table by stoking prices of everything from onions to wine.

Bloomberg’s new monthly coq-au-vin index, based on a basket of the most commonly used ingredients for the famous chicken stew, shows a 14.7% increase in January from a year earlier. The average price is now €18.70 ($20).