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 ...

In times of trouble, shortages, or just sparse pantries, Depression-era desserts are there to make life a little bit sweeter.

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 ...

The Great Depression required home cooks to be crafty and creative with their recipes. With many ingredients scarce or too costly, these culinary geniuses had to find alternatives for eggs, butter, ...

The Great Depression of the 1930s is not a time in history that we would want to repeat. Unemployment was high, housing ...

CF Penn Hamburgers has been serving Decatur for nearly a century.