Depression Cooking

93 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Great Depression.

http://www.youtube.com/user/DepressionCooking

http://www.greatdepressioncooking.com/Depression_Cooking/Welcome.html

Haven't had a chance to poke through a lot of the recipes/videos, but thought it'd be a good watch for a lot of us.

I thought there'd be more recipes involving old boots.

Just read how to cook a wolf

That's really beautiful - I can only hope that when I'm 93, Sparky (or his kids, gulp!) decide I'm interesting enough in the kitchen to video - or hologram, or whatever.

To me, the meal she cooks, though low in meat, is a very rich one because of the olive oil and fresh lemon. I'm surprised these ingredients were readily available during the depression - I remember in the 70s, my Mom guarded the Fillipo Berio like it was gold, and we used bottled lemon juice. I wonder if they were cheap only because they were food for recent immigrants that nobody else knew how to use?

These videos are great. If I make it to 92, I hope I'm that sharp and healthy.

I'd actually like to document my grandmother making a few of her favorite dishes, not so much depression era related, but poor rural south, and many are family favorites.

Very interesting, thanks. I like in the first one when she talks about the stills in people's garages.

I thought the BEST part was episode 3 when she started talking about the neighbor who brought a grocery bag to her garden and started helping herself to her vegetables. (In some places, that would get you shot.) The neighbor - who obviously had no garden - could not understand WHY that was a "no-no".

Reminds me of the guy who walked into my FIL's barn to get some straw as "well, he has fields of it." Not a wise move.

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