Food of the Great Depression
During the 1930's, farms were diversified, they grew a larger variety of crops in the fields, and in the gardens farmers grew vegetables and fruit. The concept of self sufficiency soon carried over into social life. Radios, women's magazines, and home economists taught women how to wisely spend food budgets by cooking certain meals such as casseroles, creamed chipped beef, chili, macaroni and cheese, soups, and creamed chicken. Church potlucks and one dish suppers grew in popularity, it allowed people to socialize and share food Many new foods were created such as Spam, Kraft macaroni and cheese, Toll House chocolate chip cookies, Good Humor ice cream bars, Bisquick, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, Ritz Crackers, Nestle's chocolate chips, and Kool-Aid.
For those who are interested, here is a list of Great Depression recipes that came from 1920's and 1930's cookbooks.
http://www.food.com/cookbook/depression-era-recipes-225279
http://thesurvivalmom.com/could-you-stomach-these-great-depression-meals/
sources:
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_07.html
What is this an image of? Is this a soup kitchen? What is the food? What is the circumstance? Clarification, please ^-^
ReplyDeleteLooking at this image, what are you trying to say? Are you trying to point out the individual figures and how fragile they look? Can you please clarify. During the Great Depression it was very difficult to put food on the table and families had to learn to stretch their budget to cheaper foods. Some even had to hunt there own food such as rabbits and sometimes squirrels. Overall it was a very hard time to live through.
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