During the Depression, scarce resources and frugal mindsets forced home cooks to get creative during the holidays, but the recipes they devised out of necessity deserve a second look in times of ...

The Great Depression rolled through the nation in 1930, and families did not have jobs or savings to fall back on. Eggs, milk ...

The Great Depression was triggered by several factors, including the stock market crash of 1929, but the entire nation felt its effects. Employment was drastically reduced, with almost 25% of the ...

What if you could create all those cozy flavors of the all-American pie, with no fruit at all? This may sound like an impossible feat, but a famous Great Depression-era recipe shows you that this ...

Why Make Depression-Era Recipes? If you have parents or grandparents who grew up in that era, you no doubt have heard stories about the ways people got creative to get by. Throughout this period, a ...

During the Depression, families could not afford many food items. President Roosevelt set an example with a inexpensive ...

Volunteers donate meals from their own tables. Or, like the volunteers we caught up with at St. Jerome's Church in Northeast Philadelphia, they cook in church or synagogue kitchens. As the economy ...

Someone in my family once told me, “I don’t believe in depression.” It was a startling statement, insulting to those of us who have experienced depressive episodes, and my reply was quick and sharp: ...

I’ve eaten lamb maybe once before. Maybe. I don't recall disliking it, not at all. That said, it seems like my taste in meats — chicken, beef and pork — are pretty much in line with the vast majority ...