The 1950s were a golden era for home baking. Cakes were centerpieces at family gatherings, birthdays, and celebrations, often made from recipes clipped from magazines or printed on the back of ...

Last week a volunteer at the Cape Girardeau Senior Center came into the office with a cookbook in her hand and said "Happy Birthday" as she handed it to me. I was so excited to receive a 1959 copy of ...

Dining out in the 1950s was pretty different from what it's like today, though there are some similarities. From table ...

Need a steak dinner in a hurry? Look no further than "Emergency Steak," a recipe Redditor u/catpowers4life found in a 1950s Betty Crocker cookbook. u/catpowers4life, who posts to Reddit anonymously, ...

Poodle skirts and leather jackets. Rock ’n’ roll. Midcentury furniture. There’s a lot to love about the 1950s. For all that nostalgia, the food of the period is rarely on the list of things we ...

If you want to, use some of the other New Year's Day traditional foods as side dishes — greens for money and wealth, ...