Great Depression Cooking - The Poorman's Meal - Higher Resolution
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This is a higher resolution version of Clara's Poorman's Meal video. It was shot in SD and now up-resed to HD. Not perfect, but a big improvement from the 2007 YouTube standard of 144p!
This was the very first meal we filmed for her show. We'll leave up the original and enjoy this one for improved clarity as well as a new ending message from Clara.
I recently rediscovered the original tape, dated April 10, 2007, just days away from its thirteenth anniversary. On June 2007 I posted it as the 4th video of our initial posts (saving the best for last, of course). At the time there were very few concept YouTube channels and it wasn't yet owned by Google.
As a filmmaker, I tried convincing TV studios that this was a great show idea. I was told that there wasn't really an appetite for a cooking show about the history of the Great Depression, hosted by an unknown 91 year old Grandmother.
I saw YouTube as a place I could make the show anyway and let people decide for themselves if they wanted to learn meals from the Depression and meet my amazing Grandmother. And you did decide. Thanks for watching and I'll try to continue to share Clara and her incredible cooking as best I can.
-Christopher
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Whenever people reach this age, whatever they have to say, just listen.
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Me watching these videos in 2019: So relaxing. Me watching these videos in 2020: Aggressive note-taking
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Inflation is so high in Canada right now, here I am, checking out Clara's Poorman's meal. She's still helping people to this day.
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In this harsh economy, I just made the poor man's meal again for my family and they loved it! It's January 21, 2024 and all these years later, Clara is still in our hearts. My Nana was Maltese from Malta, which is very similar to the Sicilian culture. She was born in 1913 and was so much like Clara. She passed away in 2006 at 93. The stories and life lessons I got to learn from her, and I feel so blessed to have been taught the old ways, especially with cooking. Clara's videos mean so much to me. It's like visiting with my own Nana, and what a treasure she is! Thank you to Clara's grandson for sharing your grandmother with us. You have no idea how much it means!
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When you think it about, it's really incredible. Clara passed away 7 years ago and her videos are needed now more than ever. It's almost as if Clara was preparing us for the hard times we would face in 2020 when she wouldn't be here to help in person. God bless this wonderful lady. She is missed very much.
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Even though she's no longer with us, I still come back to Clara's videos. I miss this wonderful lady.
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The potato is a great friend to humanity
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My father was born two months after the Stock Market crashed in 1929. He was the youngest of 11 children in a family that was already poor before the Depression hit in Minnesota. When his mother put whatever food they could afford on the table the family hit it like wolves, and he got the scraps being the smallest. He was a skinny kid, obviously. He eventually grew into a man 6'3", a Korean War combat veteran, and he ATE once he could afford it. He was a big man, but not obese. I remember that he would eat ANYTHING put in front of him with gusto, and he said beggars couldn't be choosers. He would eat pickled pig's feet, tripe, liver, you name it. Tough man made by tough times. I miss him with all my heart.
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I would stop by the school lunch room before school opened and the lady who cooked would give me a piece of bread with peanut butter and jelly before all the kids came for breakfast. She knew I was hungry. That was fifty years ago.
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My mother told me the story of how one Thanksgiving during the Great Depression, her family had only one solitary potato to cook and eat. It was supposed to be able to feed her mother, her brother, her sister, and herself. (Her father had passed away before this.) Her Uncle Jimmy surprised everyone by showing up with some fish he had caught in the river. My Grandmother's eyes were full of tears, and the family ended up having fish for Thanksgiving. It's stories like that one, which make me appreciate whatever little I might think at times that I have.
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My grandmother was born in 1923, and she would make meals from the 30s and they were delicious. You better respect people who grew in this Era, they had it hard than anyone else alive today. I respect my elders, where they came from and what they went through to get us here
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I just love Clara and have made this poor mans meal many a times now and have filled the bellies of my grandkids. They just love it. My mother was taken from her home in Warsaw Poland, to a Nazi child labor camp in Germany when WWII began. I tell my grandkids how blessed we are eating this meal, with those potatoes cooked so deliciously with onion and hot dogs. My poor mother would get only ‘ONE RAW POTATO’ for her dinner. Those were beyond rough times too.
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My grandmother was 8 days older than this beautiful woman and she's still alive in June of 2022! Such a blessing!!(
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When our elderly passes away, it's like a library burns to the ground. They know HISTORY. THEY LIVED IT. Listen to them. While we have them They are a world full of TRUTH and KNOWLEDGE.
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It's a pity that I only discover this when she has already died. I found out only 2 weeks ago that my own grandmother is still alive and I can still spend some time in this world together with her and I am grateful for that❤. I now watch such videos with a better conscience ❤
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Our family loves potatoes, onions, peppers & eggs. Today's poor man's meal that is delicious & healthy, too. Am so glad that Clara's videos are still up here. She was a gem.
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This woman should be declared a National Treasure.
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I just learned of this channel, and I just learned she died 7 years ago. She was awesome. rip clara.
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YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN! YOU WILL BE CELEBRATED! YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED! THESE TEARS STILL HAVEN'T FADED!
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Every year or two I’m back here watching this video.
