cshenk > wrote:
> barbie gee wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, wrote:
>>
>>> Saw it today in the window of my local independent bookstore, then
>>> I flipped open today's New York Times and...
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/di...ion-food-squar
>>> e-meal-book.html
>>>
>>> By STEVEN KURUTZ AUG. 12, 2016
>>>
>>>
>>> First paragraphs:
>>>
>>> In March 1933, shortly after ascending to the presidency, Franklin
>>> Delano Roosevelt sat down to lunch in the Oval Office. A gourmand,
>>> President Roosevelt had a taste for fancy Fifth Avenue foods like
>>> pâté de foie gras and Maryland terrapin soup.
>>>
>>> His menu that day was more humble: deviled eggs in tomato sauce,
>>> mashed potatoes and, for dessert, prune pudding.
>>>
>>> ?It was an act of culinary solidarity with the people who were
>>> suffering,? Jane Ziegelman said. Her husband, Andrew Coe, added,
>>> ?It was also a message to Americans about how to eat.?
>>>
>>> The couple, who live in Brooklyn Heights, are food historians. Mr.
>>> Coe?s last book, ?Chop Suey,? was about Chinese cuisine in America,
>>> while Ms. Ziegelman told the story of life in a Lower East Side
>>> tenement through food in her book ?97 Orchard.?
>>>
>>> Their new, collaborative work, ?A Square Meal,? which will be
>>> published Tuesday by Harper, is a history of American food in the
>>> Great Depression. Showing some culinary solidarity of their own,
>>> they met a reporter for dinner at Eisenberg?s Sandwich Shop, a
>>> tiny, no-frills lunch counter in the Flatiron district that has
>>> been in business since the year of the crash, 1929.
>>>
>>> Ms. Ziegelman, 54, ordered a cream cheese and chopped olive
>>> sandwich, while Mr. Coe, 57, had the turkey, mashed potatoes and
>>> vegetable medley. When a reporter ordered meatloaf, the couple
>>> deemed it fitting for a discussion of Depression-era eating.
>>>
>>> ?Loaves were very popular,? Ms. Ziegelman said. ?There was peanut
>>> loaf, liver loaf, bean loaf. They were made from an ingredient and
>>> a cheap thing that stretches the ingredient out. Imagine eating
>>> enough peanuts to serve as your dinner.?...
>>>
>>>
>>> More than 100 comments so far.
>>
>> I heard something about Depression Era cooking on NPR recently, but
>> it seemed that the recipes were really bland and sad.
>> They didn't want people "enjoying" their rations too much...
>
> John, rationing was during wartime. There was no rationing in the USA
> depression, just a lack of funds and jobs.
>

You are incorrect. There most definitely was food rationing during the
Great Depression.

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