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Diary arrived at a recent press briefing by William De Vijlder, chief investment officer at Fortis Investments, to discover a sea of sandwiches broken by an archipelago of crab, cheese and fruit. Courtesy saw the handful of journalists present pause before diving in, but by then it was too late - Mr De Vijlder had arrived and promptly launched into his market outlook for an inflationary H2 08. An hour and a half later, one journalist offered a backhand vote of thanks. Gesturing to the almost untouched cornucopian spread, he said - “you’ve done your bit for food prices yourself”.