100 Survival Meals Black Families Ate During the Great Depression

Which of these fed a family of six in 1933: a pot of neck bone gravy over rice, a skillet of hoecakes fried in bacon grease, or a mess of dandelion greens pulled from the empty lot next door? The answer is all three, in the same week, sometimes on the same day. Here are one hundred survival meals Black families ate during the Great Depression. A decade of cooking done off a short list and a long memory. What survived it is the habit: the pot kept on low, the scrap turned into the seasoning, the full plate built out of nearly nothing. Make one of these before the week is out, whichever one your people would recognize on sight. Those kitchens fed a whole generation, and the pot is still sitting on the stove. GreatDepression #SurvivalMeals #SoulFood #AfricanAmericanHistory #FoodHistory