Think about the last time you rummaged through your pantry, determined to create something decent with just flour, sugar, and ...

Imagine biting into what tastes like a classic American apple pie, complete with that familiar cinnamon-sugar sweetness and tender fruit texture. Now picture your shock when you discover there wasn't ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...