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 ...

A homemade pie cooling in a window with a glass jar of milk and a cat - Tom Kelley/Getty Images When the stock market crashed in 1929, the United States entered the Great Depression. For a decade, ...

From Hoover Stew to pasta with peas, Depression-era recipes are making a comeback online. Chefs on social media are showing ...

Melt butter in a medium-sized pan and add celery and onions. Cook until softened and translucent. Break apart the bread into ...

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 ...

Discover the calcium loaf, a Depression-era recipe using eggshells and beans to boost nutrition and promote self-sufficiency ...

What does the term 'million dollar recipe' - one of the most wide-ranging phrases in the American culinary lexicon - mean, ...

Grandparents often have some, well, odd wisdom to share. Like the time I had a sore throat and my grandpa told me to take silver nitrate — not exactly conventional. Sometimes their advice came from a ...

Dot Nelson learned to cook before she was tall enough to reach the stove. Lucky for her, and her family, she lived on a farm. "I've cooked for as long as I can remember. When I couldn't reach the ...