The Kitchen Wars: Blessed Be the Peacemakers

During 1927, Thea, only nineteen, married in a white framed country church which smelled of peonies and sprigs of lilac flowers. The wedding rites were recited on a Sunday afternoon in late May so none of the farmers, including her father and her groom, missed a day from field work. Thea raised her eyes to the heavens and prayed. Please help me be a good wife.

She and her family would face the Depression, grasshoppers, the Dust Bowl, and near poverty. However, it was the kitchen that chall...