When the stock market crashed in 1929, ushering in the Great Depression, the way Americans approached food and cooking ...

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 ...

I was told this story by my father who was raised during the Great Depression. He told it to us after each Christmas to remind us of the continuing plight of the poor. Tuesday, Jan. 22 ...