Long before grocery inflation or hoarding of toilet paper, there was a different kind of issue with the food supply: lack of volume. Throughout World War II, the U.S. saw severe shortages of items ...

The United states is still feeling the effects of wartime rationing, even 80-plus years later. It's most apparent in the food we eat.

People often reference the hardship the World War II generation went through. I've found a blog that chronicles a little bit of what that experience might be like. Read on. Katie Whipple is a ...

On the run-up to Christmas in 1944, the Tribune published a recipe for fruit-candy gifts, above which was a list that, at this distance, seems encrypted. “Sugar stamps 30 through 34 [book 4], 5 lbs ...