Depression-Era Recipes Are Making a Comeback as Food Budgets Tighten

TikTok users have been sharing creative meals that stretch groceries, such as Fried Potatoes with Hot Dogs, Pork Cake and ...
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10 Great Depression Recipes Making a Comeback During Inflation, Historians Observe

Rising food costs and economic uncertainty have Americans reaching into their grandparents' recipe boxes. S.Labor ...
Home as We Make It on MSN

Depression-Era Meals Worth Trying

The Great Depression wasn’t just an economic catastrophe — it was a culinary revolution born from necessity. Between 1929 and ...
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The Vintage Depression-Era Dessert That Paved The Way For Today's Lava Cakes

If you love molten chocolate lava cakes, you'll probably get just as much joy out of this make-do Depression-era treat that ...
Daily Herald

Depression stole her drive to cook. Recipes like this curry brought it back.

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: ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Depression-era recipes: Good food on a tight budget

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 ...
Post-Bulletin

Cooking School a big hit in Depression-era Rochester

Patrons attending the final day of the annual Post-Bulletin Cooking School in 1936, left with door prizes ranging from potted plants, a 49-pound sack of flour, a large baked ham, an electric mixer and ...
The Village Voice

Best Cooking Show Ever?

A friend just called this to my attention (via Jezebel). It’s the first episode of a show called Great Depression Cooking, featuring a 90-something, pretty adorable woman named Clara showing you the ...