Chef Andrew Hunter shares depression-era meals that are gaining popularity as grocery prices surge and budgets shrink.

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 ...

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 ...

Mock Apple Pie - The Ultimate Kitchen Magic Trick Imagine biting into what tastes like a classic American apple pie, complete ...

There's something kind of remarkable about food born from necessity. When you're staring down empty cupboards and an even ...

Why Make Depression-Era Recipes? If you have parents or grandparents who grew up in that era, you no doubt have heard stories about the ways people got creative to get by. Throughout this period, a ...

vintage photo of woman stirring pot - George Marks/Getty Images When times are tough, culinary innovation takes place. From Italy's flavor-optimizing cucina povera to the complicated history of budae ...

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 ...

"I was a young girl in the late '20s when my mom made this recipe, but it was called Eggless, Milkless, Butterless Cake." So writes Loretta DeWitte of Bettendorf in response to a cake recipe printed ...