NYE home dinners to cost 2% more this year

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 30 - Italian New Year's Eve home dinners will cost about 2% more this year than last due to the high price of clams, the key ingredient of the spaghetti with clams that is the biggest festive favourite, Coldiretti said Saturday on data from the Ixè market research company.
    The media household spend on the dinners will be 98 euros, the farm group said.
    Some 87% of Italians will have their dinners in theirs or friends and relatives' homes, it said, while 4.6 million will eat out in restaurants and pizzerias and a further 350,000 in agriturismos.
    About a third will keep spending down below 50 euros a family while 23% will spend between 50 and 100 and 20% will reach 150 euros, the survey said.
    The richest tables will be in the south of Italy, it said.
    (ANSA).