[Janalyn Voigt] Tasting History: Most Popular Cookie of the 1920s

The 1920s started as an era of prosperity and ended with the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression. This decade brought both Prohibition and repeal. Women gained the right to vote. Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and other “lost generation” expatriate writers composed classic literature in Europe. Young women ditched corsets