Clara Cannucciari: Great Depression Cooking Videos
Clara Cannucciari is a 93 year old great-grandmother and the daughter of Sicilian immigrant parents. She learned to cook back in the depression years when money was tight.
She has decided that her way of cooking is just what America needs, now that many have fallen on hard times. We’ve included some of her simple and economical meals below. Her cooking videos are suddenly very much in demand on the internet.
Check out a video of Clara’s ‘Poorman’s Meal’, ‘Pasta With Peas’, ‘Peppers & Eggs’ below.
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yaay perfect food for students :)
She is SO adorable. These are good meal ideas. And if I dont get a job soon my husband and I will be having peas and pasta and poor mans meal every night
I HAD LEFT OVER PEAS PLUS AN ONION AND PUT SOME GARLIC AND HOT PEPPER INTO THE PAN. I ADDED LEFTOVER SPAGHETTI AND HAVE A SMALL PIECE OF MEAT TO COOK UP AND TOSS THE WHOLE THING TOGETHER. SO I SAT DOWN AND PUT ON THE COMPUTER AND LOOKED UP THE WEBSITE OF CLARA AND LO AND BEHOLD, SHE WAS MAKING PEAS AND MACARONI!!
March 4, 2009
Clara,
Caught your act on CBS News tonight. Glad your grandson
talked you into these shows. They will be valuable to many
people. Keep it up! You have many more grandchildren
now!
Thanks and God Bless YOU! Loved hearing about how
it was and the good old recipes!
Jane in North Carolina
Loved your book,I read it as I broke my arm and a
friend gave me the book, You are a doll and remind me of my late Aunt from Virginia,Minnesota. My
mother lived to 90 and told me much about the
depression, I currently wrote my book about travel
around the world on TWA hope you read my book
Love to you Clara! “Wing Tip Shoes” Memoires
of a Flight Attendant