Every recipe in this magazine can be made in a 13x9-inch pan or a 3-quart casserole. The diverse array of recipes features saucy and cheesy casseroles, homey main dishes, roasted veggies and gratins, cakes, breads, bars, and fruit desserts. Special features include roasts, potluck dishes, and lasagnas.
The Roaring ’20s: The Decade That Changed America
A Measure of Time
A Decade of Change Opener • New fashions, new music, new attitudes, new forms of fun. Everywhere you looked, the world was becoming a very different place
Cultural Revolution • The parties were wild, the jazz was hot, the fads were completely off the wall—and there was a new topic: sex
The Rich Are Different • From French châteaux to fur chapeaux, newly minted millionaires indulged their every whim. Oh, to be a Morgan or a Rockefeller!
A Gathering Storm • Resentment among those left out of the decade’s prosperity created toxic conditions
Liberated • With the new right to vote, women began to express themselves at the polls. They also took up vices that had long been the provinces of men: smoking, drinking and all-around bawdy behavior
Sell Them Their Dreams • To keep consumers spending, the advertising industry stretched the truth and tapped into hidden emotions
Getting Around Opener • America was on the move, and so was the transportation industry. Detroit cranked out cars. Luxury liners crisscrossed the Atlantic. And then came the planes
The Automobile Age • Mass production made cars more affordable, and soon Americans of even modest means were traveling the roads
Lucky Lindy • In the first solo transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh battled fatigue, heavy fog and an ice storm, but he touched down in France a hero
The Friendlier Skies • The commercial airline industry began with a ragged band of barnstormers and the decision to deliver the nation’s mail by air
Old Standbys, New Luxuries • When Americans set out to see the world, they wanted to do so in style. Railcar makers and luxury liners met the challenge
Bright Young Things Opener • Dancing, dating, smoking, showing off in daring fashions: The flappers and their friends changed all the rules
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby • Young, carefree and always on the lookout for the next party, the flapper was the great symbol of the age
The Dating Game • The old rules were swept away as young women and men began exploring romance away from the supervision—and the prying eyes—of their parents
Those Shocking Fashions • Silky, chic and provocative, the 1920s styles broke rules and showed off the assets of a newly confident American woman
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and the Lost Generation • Writers portrayed Americans as fast-living, spiritually alienated and disillusioned
Dancing Fools • Suddenly everyone had rhythm and the footwork to go with it. Americans scuffed up the hardwood as they learned the Charleston, the Lindy hop and the turkey trot
Cigarette Chic • Smoking became a popular—and fashionable—practice
All That Jazz Opener • It wasn’t just different beats, notes and rhythms. The new sound captured the mood of the nation
Big Sound from the Big Easy • The party started in New Orleans, but soon music lovers in Chicago, Kansas City and New York were swaying and stomping to the syncopated rhythms of jazz
Satchmo and the Empress of the Blues • Two of the greatest stars to emerge from the Jazz Age were Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith
Club Land • The joints were jumpin’. With the infectious sounds of big bands, dance orchestras and singers like Ethel Waters, how could they not be?
Radio Days • Clubs may have helped popularize jazz, but it was a new device that made the...
