I tried a chocolate-cake recipe with no eggs or dairy that dates back to the Great Depression. Known as "Depression cake," the penny-pinching recipe is useful now due to the high price of eggs. I didn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...