On March 1, 1943, readers of The Appeal-Democrat learned that grocers in Yuba and Sutter counties reported light sales of newly rationed groceries during the first day of war time “point rationing” ...

Rationing could be a reality as populations grow and climate change bites. But would consumers support it and what would it mean for food manufacturers? Radical as it might sound, governments may be ...

A study on people born during and just after wartime sugar rationing in the United Kingdom has found that rationing was linked to a significantly lower risk of type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure ...

In the months before the spooky season of 1941, the United States experienced a drought on one of Halloween’s biggest commodities: sugar. It was an existential threat to trick-or-treaters across the ...

Rationing of goods in Europe started immediately when the war broke out. Lord Woolton, British Minister of Food came up with one of the first substitute dishes... a vegetable pie that was promptly ...