AMERICA'S FOOD FADS from the Roaring '20s to Modern Times Explore each exciting decade through its food and social etiquette. Learn about popular '20s foods like "flapper pudding" and "sorority salad" inspired by the rise in women's rights and about "ice box cake" created thanks to the invention of the refrigerator. As we move into the '30s Depression era with its unemployment lines, soup kitchens, bread lines and apple sellers discover the new value placed on home entertaining. Discover the story behind '30s foods like pineapple upside down cake, "Betty Co-Ed sandwiches", salad fantasies, and the new post-Prohibition cocktails and cocktail party foods. WW II brought shortages and inspired "victory gardens", home canning "meatless Tuesdays," "No ration-point" menus, and sugarless desserts. The suburbanization of '50s sparked cocktail parties and backyard BBQs, and the '70s and '80s new gourmet awareness. Learn about America's diet crazes each decade and much, much more! close window