Looking back now, it is easy to deride all of the food of that period. A picture of a molded Jell-O salad will make most people cringe. However, before you throw the baby out with the bath water ...

Modern British cooks have access to a huge range of herbs, spices and sauces from all over the world, yet research has shown that the average evening meal in 2008 contains just half the ...

Think 1950s food and you might conjure up Jell-O salads with a riot of add-ons or soda pop put to unnatural uses. In her new book, Something from the Oven, Laura Shapiro deconstructs food from the ...

According to a shocking new graphic from the Centers for Disease Control, a typical fast-food burger weighed just 3.9 ounces in the 1950s. Now, it’s 12 ounces — three times larger.

Before modern feminism — and without house robots to do dishes, wash laundry or cook food by zapping it with microwaves — a typical 1950s housewife did up to 15 times the amount of housework ...