When the Going gets Rough...

[jarandhel]

As I'm sure most people have noticed, times are tough right now.  I came across something today that might help make them a little better:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=DepressionCooking&view=videos

It's a series of videos about recipes from the Great Depression.  I've been enjoying it a lot.  I've also started looking for other resources with recipes from that era.  This is what I've found so far:

http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/jarandhel/depression-era-food

Comments

[ns-kumiho.livejournal.com]

LOL, I love poorly generated ads:

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, I keep finding stuff on foods to eat to combat depression myself...

[saturninesun.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thanks for posting.
I'm rather fascinated at how these kinds of food differ between countries. This here looks so much more like an effort to make it taste good than e.g. German post-war food or various countries' poor people's dishes. Except for Italy. If I could live on traditional Italian poor man's diet forever, I'd be happy. -g-

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

Do you know any good sites for post-war or poor people's recipes from Europe? This kind of thing is stuff that people in the US could really benefit from now. People here really aren't, as a rule, used to having to survive on minimal incomes anymore. There are, of course, exceptions to this rule but I don't know that many of the exceptions have had the time or desire to sit down and write cookbooks about it.

[saturninesun.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I don't know any websites off-hand, but when I'm back at my own computer I'll look into my bookmarks if there's anything saved. Well, I do know some German websites with all kinds of recipes that have people perpetually sending stuff in, and there are some of these types of recipes among them, but well they're in German. -g- And there are certainly cookbooks, and as I know my frantic problem-dwelling compatriots there'll soon be more. (There are already cookbooks on meals made entirely out of cheap discount supermarket products.) Again, in German. There may be more though, and if I run across something good, I can easily just translate it for you. You may wanna look through British sites for starters on the same language. And I do know we've got some Italian poor people's recipes in a book, some of which we make regularly; I can just write you down some recipes there, too.
I'm planning on looking into this stuff myself some more when I've got my own household to run again, and I'm optimistic about the German pessimism producing more resources very soon in this crisis. -g- In any case I'll let you know.

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

urgh. The more I look through these, the more I remember how much my mom's family still cooking from them led me to be a vegetarian just as cheaply. :)

I will, however, always have a soft spot for the cake.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Yeah, some of the recipes I'm not a real fan of, but others are remarkably close to meals I have been making for quite some time now when money has been tight. The repeated use of hotdogs, for example, is something that I continually use as part of my own version of a poor-man's rice casserole. (Or whatever other meat I happen to have on hand, from hamburgers to ostrich. Seriously. It's a very adaptable recipe.)