Clara's Kitchen

Wisdom, Memories, and Recipes from the Great Depression

Clara Cannucciari, Everybody's Favorite YouTube Grandmother, with Her Grandson Christopher Cannucciari

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YouTube® sensation Clara Cannucciari shares her treasured recipes and commonsense wisdom in a heartwarming remembrance of the Great Depression

Clara Cannucciari is a 94 year-old internet sensation. Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking videos have an army of devoted followers. In Clara’s Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up America’s spirits, recipes to keep the wolf from the door, and tells her story of growing up during the Great Depression with a tight-knit family and a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” philosophy of living. In between recipes for pasta with peas, eggplant parmesan, chocolate covered biscotti, and other treats Clara gives readers practical advice on cooking nourishing meals for less. Using lessons she learned during the Great Depression, she writes, for instance, about how to conserve electricity when cooking and how you can stretch a pot of pasta with a handful of lentils. She reminisces about her youth and writes with love about her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Clara’s Kitchen takes readers back to a simpler, if not more difficult time, and gives everyone what they need right now: hope for the future and a nice dish of warm pasta from everyone’s favorite grandmother, Clara Cannuciari, a woman who knows what’s really important in life.

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CLARA'S KITCHEN
CHAPTER ONEGoods from the Garden and "Found" FoodsESPECIALLY IN THE LEAN YEARS of the Depression, we lived on vegetables and, and it kept us plenty strong and healthy for all the hard work at hand. Meat was a treat, but vegetables were our staples.When I was a kid, my father kept a garden in the backyard, which we helped him keep up, and my mother would take the vegetables we grew and make them into all kinds of meals. Not just side dishes like you would today.

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Kim  rated it  
Feb 25, 2011
Very sweet book....this fabulous ninety year old recalls living during the depression and while they had nothing, she manages to remember the joy of the experiences. Quick and simple read. ...more
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Joely  rated it  
May 18, 2010
Ever since I saw Clara on YouTube, I've loved her. The recipes are pretty much the same from the videos, but the bits of commentary, advice, and pictures are priceless. ...more
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Jillybean  rated it  
Feb 2, 2010
Love the tidbits/stories of her childhood during the great depression . . . the recipes are an added bonus! Will definitely add this book to my bookshelf! ...more
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Clara Cannucciari, Everybody's Favorite YouTube Grandmother, with Her Grandson Christopher Cannucciari

CLARA CANNUCCIARI is 94 years old and lives in Skaneateles, New York. Her grandson, CHRISTOPHER CANNUCCIARI, is a filmmaker who lives in Brooklyn. His latest film is New Brooklyn.

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Clara's Kitchen
Wisdom, Memories, and Recipes from the Great Depression
Clara Cannucciari, Everybody's Favorite YouTube Grandmother, with Her Grandson Christopher Cannucciari

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St. Martin's Press
October 2009
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ISBN: 9780312608279
ISBN10: 0312608276
5 x 7 1/4 inches, 208 pages, Includes 78 sepia-toned photographs throughout
$21.99
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