With the soaring costs of groceries, it's not wonder that Depression-era dinners are trending. This is one of the easiest low ...

A walk through today's grocery store feels different than it did a few years ago. Orange juice prices have jumped nearly one third compared to last year, while grocery prices overall have risen about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...