The state's $275 weekly maximum benefit hasn't changed in 10 years and is making the economic downturn more painful for Florida residents as more join the unemployment rolls each month. In Massachusetts, unemployed workers collect up to $600 a week.
No part of the animal went to waste. 5. Fermented & Cultured Foods: Our grandparents ate homemade yogurt, cultured butter and home fermented sauerkraut and pickles not just because they liked the flavor, but because it was the way to preserve foods.. Food Cooked from Scratch: Since supermarkets didnât exist, neither did boxed meals. Unprocessed, from scratch meals meant our grandparents ate healthy homemade foods every day. Restaurants were a rare treat, not a quick, unhealthy convenience.
People began to grow food. The people we now call Ancestral Pueblo or Anasazi began to farm in the dry, warm climate of the Four Corners area. They figured out how to irrigate their crops. Corn, beans, and squash (which probably came into Utah from Mexico) became a mainstay of meals. So did turkey, which the people had domesticated.