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A couple in Wisconsin died early this month while attempting the popular social media trend, 'fractal burning'.

How do you want people to view your body at your funeral?  At a New Orleans funeral home, they're changing the way that people think about viewings and visitations - with an emphasis on giving the customer what they want.

It's time for that annual tradition that always seems to come around in December:  The "best of" list - where someone summarizes what the important trends were throughout the past 12 months.  I've been chosen to compile a pseudo-summary list of what was hot in the food industry in 2013.

Kitchen appliances just got a new trendy color - and it's being heralded by designers as the "kiss of death" for stainless steel.  It may look like white to you, but the Whirlpool appliance company is marketing their "new" color as something they call "White Ice".

Food trucks - as those mobile restaurants-on-wheels are called are the "in" thing.  Perhaps that's why brick-and-mortar restaurant owners in Buffalo, New York are proposing stricter regulations on them. Food truck operators believe mobile vending regulations proposed by a group of restaurant owners are "protectionist" and include issues never discussed during last month's talks

Rising costs and changing tastes have lead to less cereal consumption in the United States. Consumption of ready-to-eat cereals began to decline in the early 1990s as prices of name-brand cereals rose along with the popularity of convenient breakfast foods such as bagels and toaster pastries...