Refrigeration meant leftovers, so food during the Great Depression was prepared to last (think casseroles and loaves). Because America didn’t have a “national conscious or memory of hunger ...

Amidst the hardship of the Great Depression, culinary creativity flourished ... exploring 20 of the most unexpected foods that sustained families through challenging times.

Men eating bread and soup at a breadline during The Great Depression in the USA in 1929. Breadlines were places for people in extreme poverty, who did not have the money to buy food for themselves ...