94 year old great-grandmother Clara has been videotaped by her grandson as she prepares meals that she and her family ate during the Great Depression. In an attempt to capture not only the recipes and the methods of preparation but Clara’s stories and memories of the time, she and her grandson have created quite an archive of precious videos!
I’ve previously written about several, including Sicilian Fig Cookies parts one and two, Depression breakfast, dandelion salad, pasta with peas, and poorman’s meal.
In the video above, Clara prepares Eggplant Parmesan, though she says right off the bat that she actually makes it …read more