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 ...

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Looking for ways to save money in the kitchen without sacrificing flavor? In this video, Nicole makes 10 Great Depression–era recipes that prove resourceful cooking can still be delicious nearly a ...

Herbert Hoover served as president through the first years of the Depression and was commonly seen as doing little to alleviate the country's problems. As a result, the name Hoover became a byword for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rising food costs and economic uncertainty have Americans reaching into their grandparents' recipe boxes. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. By now, prices of food at home have risen by ...