Recipes Created During Tough Times

Atlas Obscura has several articles about recipes that were created during hard times. Scarcity of ingredients or their expense led to a lot of creativity:

I think it is safe to say we are in a time of discomfort. Maybe some tomato soup cake will hit the spot.

Shelf-Promotion

Full bookshelves in the backgrounds of video calls is not unusual, but how many people out there purchased books for the purpose of showing off their bookshelves during video calls? Apparently enough that there are bookshelf curators you can hire to stock your shelves. The Guardian has an interesting article about it.