Depression Cooking with Clara
Whenever I hear that we're heading for the next Great Depression I wonder how this generation will cope. Listen and watch as 93 year-old Clara Cannucciari teaches us how to cook a typical meal from her Great Depression family kitchen and recants her stories of the struggles and joys that she experienced as a child. Clara's webblog If you enjoyed this cooking lesson, check out her other videos , which were filmed by her grandson Christopher Cannucciarri . Her Sicilian Christmas (Cucidati Fig &Nut) cookie episode and her Poor Man's Feast are especially wonderful. With each video Clara sprinkles her cooking with nuggets of wisdom and honesty about the hardships of those years, yet she remains joyful and delighted to share these treasured recipes and memories. What a wonderful spirit! You can also listen to this song, Blue Moon , written by Rodgers & Hart in 1933 and performed by the great jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli in 1990, with Martin Taylor on guit...