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The Depression Was Great for the American Kitchen

Posted September 26th, 2016 at 10:44 am (UTC-4)
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[E]ven at the height of the Depression, when a quarter of the workforce was unemployed, most people were not on relief, and most were not suffering malnutrition. Those people were, however, seeing some pretty remarkable transformation in how they produced, purchased and consumed food.