There's something kind of remarkable about food born from necessity. When you're staring down empty cupboards and an even emptier wallet, creativity kicks in. The Great Depression era of the 1930s ...

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 ...

Americans were eating, although the food they were eating may not have been of the finest quality. Beans — cheap and nutritious — were a part of many meals, and so was soup, for the same reasons. And ...