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

Depression-era cooking wasn’t just about making do with less-it created some incredibly delicious recipes that shine through generations. My grandmother taught me how frugal cooks transformed simple ...

Here's how Irish-Italian spaghetti became a Depression-era favorite, blending simple ingredients into a dish that worked ...

Spam used to be quite commonplace in American homes after World War II, but one particular Spam-centric dish has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Though these old-school recipes may not be whipped out as often, they're still easy ways to make use of the ingredients you ...

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

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 ...