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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 Claras Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up Americas 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. Claras 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 everyones favorite grandmother, Clara Cannuciari, a woman who knows whats really important in life.

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Claras Kitchen: Wisdom, Memories, and Recipes from the Great Depression
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Table of Contents Clara and Christopher would like to thank the whole - photo 1
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Clara and Christopher would like to thank the whole Cannucciari family: Nancy, Therese, John-Paul, Mark, Patrick, Henry, Carl, and Kyoko. A special thanks to Abby Cope for capturing the meals with loving care. Clara would also like to thank her brother, Sam, and everyone back at Melrose Park who remembers the old neighborhood, plus a big thanks to all of our friends in Skaneateles, New York.
This book would not have been possible without the hard work and magic of Francine LaSala, and the guidance of Sharon Bowers. We are especially grateful to Michael Flamini and everyone at St. Martins Press for their strong vision and love of all things Clara.
Most of all we would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to watch Claras videos. Without your support Claras recipes might have disappeared and her stories faded away. Thank you for seeing the importance of keeping these simple meals and wisdom alive. We hope that you will pass these recipes on through the generations of your own families.
Sweeping my porch keeps me fit.
Me with my grandson Chris
My first Holy Communion
My father and mother
Left to right : my mother, my husband, my son, and my father
My father in the backyard
Thats me ( top row, far right ) with some of the girls from the Hostess Twinkie factory.
Me and a friend before the war
I was so surprised when Chris made breakfast for me!
Pop
The family on a picnic
Those were the days!
Summertime
Mom, my brother, Sam, and me
Sam in his uniform
I never wore pants around the house because my mother hated them, and I always made sure to change into a skirt before I got home!
Even though times were hard, the summer was a carefree time when I was growing up.
Ive had that owl cookie jar for as long as I can remember.
My mother and my cousin, Mary.
Theres nothing like homemade bread.
The Festival of Our Lady Mt. Carmel
My great-grandson Henry loves fried dough with powdered sugar.
A rare photo of me in pants at home. Mom must not have been around!
Me and my cousin, Mary, with another person, visiting the convent.
My cousin, Mary ( first on the left ), the day she was accepted into her order.
Wow! Lovey-dovey! A Depression-era couple from the neighborhood.
There was nothing like getting out of the city when the summer was hot!
We really had a good time when we went on vacations like this one to Lake Geneva.
My brother, Sam, with his wife, Emma
Three genteel young ladies at a Halloween party.
Oh my God
Mom, Pop, and some of their grandchildren
Even as a little boy, Chris loved spaghetti with the family sauce!
This is me with my grandson Marks dog, Sparky.
My great-grandson Carl
My wedding day, one of the happiest days of my life
Me, Carl, and Dino in our new home
My husband, Dino, and my son, Carl
Me with friends, late 1940s
These are the girls from the Richardson Factory bowling team. I am in the top row, third from right.
The family sits down to eat.
Chocolate-covered biscotti just make everyone happy because theyre such a treat!
I love telling my grandchildren how to make all the foods I grew up with, especially the cucidati.
Clara Cannucciari is ninety-four 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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Goods from the Garden and Found Foods
E SPECIALLY 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. The vegetables, made with pasta or on their own, were the main event. Meat was too hard to come by most of the time. We had to stretch out whatever we had for as long as we could, so whatever we couldnt eat, my mother would can and preserve for winter. Sometimes wed eat stuff that grew wild,like burdock and dandelions and mushrooms. Wed find it, and Ma would clean and cook it.
My father would plant vegetables all summer Ma would take out the seeds dry - photo 3
My father would plant vegetables all summer. Ma would take out the seeds, dry them out, and then my father would plant them again. And thats how we kept our garden growing. Whatever was left over, my mother would can. We ate really well in the Depression, and throughout the year, because of that. Here are some of my favorite recipes Ma made with the vegetables we grew.
Serves 4
ITS EASY TO FORGET about nutrition when your pockets are empty, but where theres dirt, theres foodhealthy, nutritious food. Back in the Depression, lots of people grew gardens to eat from, including us. Some people would grow gardens in the summer and then go through the streets and try and sell their stuff. Buying someone elses vegetables was too expensive for us, but we still needed to eat.
A couple of times, my father stood in line for food the government supplied, but he hated it. He was very proud and self-reliant, and he would rather go without than take handouts. I think he went twice and then never again. Instead, my father took matters into his own hands and kept a great big garden in our backyard. He grew just about everything there. Carrots, escarole, spinach, asparagus, radishes, beans, eggplant, peppers, Swiss chard, you name it. We ate so healthy with all those vegetables and we werent even trying. And we worked hard helping him keep that garden in shape. No wonder we all live so longmy brother and I are both healthy and strong and in our nineties!
Swiss chard was good, but it was always a little bitter for me, so Ma would always add some garlic to give it a little extra something. You can toss this over pasta or serve it as a side for a meat dish.
You will need

1 bunch Swiss chard
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 clove garlic, minced
Salt and pepper

1. Bring a large pot of water to the boil.
2. Thoroughly rinse the Swiss chard, removing most of the tough stems (but leave some if they look like they will be tender).
3. Add the Swiss chard to the pot. Boil 5 minutes, then drain and set aside. When its cool enough to handle, squeeze it between your hands to get all the extra water out of the chard.
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