“Penny restaurants” began in the late 19th century in cities across the United States. Usually operated as charitable programs to provide inexpensive meals to the needy, these eateries became most […]
Tag: Depression
How apples came to be sold on street corners during the Great Depression
Thousands of men spent thousands of hours on New York street corners during the Depression due to the efforts of a man named Joseph Sicker, chairman of the Unemployed Relief Committee […]
Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression
by Janet Poppendieck From the publisher: At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government’s attempt to […]
Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe From the publisher: From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation […]
Food of a Younger Land: A portrait of American food from the lost WPA files
by Mark Kurlansky From the publisher: A portrait of American food–before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation’s food was seasonal, regional, and traditional–from […]