Caviar bumps, cost jumps: US consumers on how they’re dining in Trump’s economy

We asked people from a variety of socioeconomic conditions how they feel about food costs during Donald Trump’s second term. Composite: Dustin Chambers/The Guardian

On a Tuesday in December, a Guardian reporter and photographer set out around Atlanta to ask people how they felt about food, 11 months into Donald Trump’s second administration. We asked people from widely different socioeconomic conditions – from those who were wondering where their next meal might come from to those who spend more in a month on food than an average family spends on a mortgage.

Here is what we found.