In this system, foods are divided into three categories: hot, cold or neutral.

For example, computer programmers are a hot category to 2005, the Government said.

"But the single hottest category remains the dinosaur."

Contemporary furnishings are probably the hottest category, with some breathtakingly high prices.

"Jeans are a really hot category," he said.

Consumer electronics, once a hot category, is losing last year's sole participant, Panasonic.

Others wonder at what point a hot category will run out of available readers.

Why has personal finance become such a hot category?

But urns, statues and benches are the hottest new category of hot property in America.

Among the hottest categories: furniture as well as decorative and fine art.