Harlan Fenwick
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I'm Harlan Fenwick, and I keep an almanac of what America ate between 1929 and 1941. Twelve years. A quarter of the workforce out of a job, no unemployment insurance, and several million households working out how to put something on a table every evening with almost nothing to put there. What I collect is the paperwork that left behind. Recipe cards for pies made without fruit. Grocery ledgers kept in pencil to the cent. Relief commodity lists, soup kitchen records, and the recollections of people who were children then and never knew the family was poor. Most of it was never meant to be interesting. That's exactly why it's worth reading. New entries in the almanac every few days. Harlan Fenwick is a character. The records are real.
How One Chicken Fed a Family for a Week
Harlan Fenwick · 569 views · 3 days ago
The Grocers Who Burned the Debt Books
Harlan Fenwick · 4 views · 4 days ago
The Jar of Grease Every American Kitchen Kept
Harlan Fenwick · 16 views · 3 days ago
The Apple Pie With No Apples In It
Harlan Fenwick · 79 views · 12 days ago
The Six Weeks That Decided the Winter
Harlan Fenwick · 68 views · 7 days ago
The Weeds Americans Ate to Get Through Spring
Harlan Fenwick · 12 views · 6 days ago
What They Actually Served In a Breadline
Harlan Fenwick · 306 views · 9 days ago
The Food Box the Government Handed Out in 1935
Harlan Fenwick · 112 views · 8 days ago
The Meal They Named After the President
Harlan Fenwick · 11 views · 11 days ago
Why America Destroyed Food While Americans Starved
Harlan Fenwick · 31 views · 11 days ago
12 Objects Every American Owned in 1940 That No Longer Exist
Harlan Fenwick · 23 views · 1 month ago
The Gangster Who Fed 2,200 Chicagoans a Day
Harlan Fenwick · 8 views · 13 days ago
12 Things Every American Farmer Knew in 1930 That Nobody Is Taught Now
Harlan Fenwick · 34 views · 1 month ago