Claras Kitchen, Clara Cannucciari
Claras Kitchen, Clara Cannucciari
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Clara's Kitchen
Wisdom, Memories, and Recipes from the Great Depression

Author: Clara Cannucciari, Christopher Cannucciari

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Unabridged: 3 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/24/2024

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Clara Cannucciari became an internet sensation late in life, making cooking videos until her 96th birthday. Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking channel garnered an army of devoted followers. Now, in Clara's Kitchen, she gives listeners 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 listeners practical advice on cooking nourishing meals for less. Using lessons 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 listeners 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathryn on June 27, 2013

I found this in my library's cookbook section but it is really much more. It's a charmingly told but very real slice of Italian-American history, the sort of-memoir of Clara Cannucciari who grew up in Melrose Park, a Chicago suburb once home to many Italian-Americans. Often when hearing of how people......more

Goodreads review by Wulfwyn on September 13, 2020

Recipes But So Much More I first discovered Clara on YouTube. I immediately loved her. She was everybody 's grandma. I am from the Chicago area. She is a reminder of my childhood. What I loved about her on YouTube can be found in this book. Simple meals that don't require a lot, though love is probab......more