Exploring the concept of frugality in American culture and its historical roots in the Great Depression.
Mesmerized, I watched my grandmother’s hands working the dough as she told me how she survived the Great Depression . How she brewed tea twice. Diluted soap. Saved every bag, tie, and scrap of foil.These idiosyncrasies of the Silent Generation annoyed my mother, but fascinated me. My grandmother’s lessons in frugality would serve me a few years later when I became homeless.Frugality does not mean what it did a century ago, a decade ago, or even a year ago if you consider the price of eggs.
A word that originally meant the care and enjoyment of the fruits of one’s labor, “frugal” doesn’t have the same definition for everyone. That’s because not everyone has equal access to those fruits.To understand the role of frugality in American culture, studying the Great Depression is a good starting point. “There’s a great dish called Milkorno,” says baker and author B. Dylan Hollis, who revived an old recipe for the powdered milk and cornmeal gruel for TikTok. Hollis studies history through cookbook
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