If you take a hard look at your grocery bill, you’re probably a little unnerved these days. While the cost of just about everything has increased over the past several months, food costs have skyrocketed. Food inflation has accelerated for more than a year, by whopping 10 percent in the most recent calculations. That’s a rate we haven’t seen in more than 40 years.
The rising costs are hard to swallow, but Americans are no strangers to hard times. Both World Wars I and II saw enormous shifts in how Americans ate. Sandwiched between the world wars were the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought—times of notorious hardship and hunger.
