The Great Depression wasn’t just an economic catastrophe — it was a culinary revolution born from necessity. Between 1929 and ...

In the 1930s, home cooks across America had to get creative just to put food on the table. With limited resources, rationing, and little room for waste, families relied on ingenuity to stretch every ...

To say the Great Depression changed the way Americans ate would be an understatement. Home cooks dropped or reduced the use of costly ingredients like meat, dairy, and eggs. Today, while these foods ...

Spam used to be quite commonplace in American homes after World War II, but one particular Spam-centric dish has been ...

Here's how Irish-Italian spaghetti became a Depression-era favorite, blending simple ingredients into a dish that worked ...

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 ...

What does the term 'million dollar recipe' - one of the most wide-ranging phrases in the American culinary lexicon - mean, ...

Melt butter in a medium-sized pan and add celery and onions. Cook until softened and translucent. Break apart the bread into ...

Grandparents often have some, well, odd wisdom to share. Like the time I had a sore throat and my grandpa told me to take silver nitrate — not exactly conventional. Sometimes their advice came from a ...