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 ...

The depression-era produced a lot of creative recipes. Many didn't stick, but some, like this breakfast meal, helped pioneer ...

Grandparents often have some, well, odd wisdom to share. Like the time I had a sore throat and my grandpa told me to take ...

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 ...

I never thought I’d find myself rummaging through my great-grandmother’s old recipe cards, hoping for some last-minute inspiration for an easy treat to celebrate my daughter’s awesome report card. Yet ...

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 ...

Many dishes of necessity were born from the Great Depression era. These days, you'll rarely see one odd pairing for a sandwich that was created at the time.

Back in May 1929, the Advertiser brought in a special guest to share recipes and other homemaking advice at the City Auditorium.

Making old recipes is practically an entire genre on YouTube these days, but if no one ever makes this repulsive-sounding ...

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: ...