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 of the 1930s is not a time in history that we would want to repeat. Unemployment was high, housing ...
Depression-era photography has become strongly associated with a documentary style, but “Reality Makes Them Dream” shows other facets of life at the time, as in Marion Post Wolcott’s “Center of town, ...
People during the Depression called these chocolate cakes "Crazy Cakes" or "Wacky Cakes" because they used no eggs, butter, or milk. Instead of butter, oil was used, and instead of eggs, a combination ...
The Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 to 1941, was the longest and most difficult economic downturn in American history, with nearly 25% of the labor force unemployed in 1933. The financial ...