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  • Thank you for making videos with story and cooking.

    This takes me back to when I was growing up as a kid, we used to always gather round our elders for stories from their youth, also around the holidays I used to help cook for posadas and we get to share all sorts of stories.

  • That recipe looks delicious!!!

  • Few things warm my heart like an old woman's contented laughter :)

  • Whoever made the Tunis map didn't know how to connect the Arabic letters.

  • Clara's Depression Cooking videos make me feel good. Thank you for sharing yourself with all of us, Clara.

  • Somebody help her cut those potatoes........... 

  • That looks sooooo delicious! I'd love to try it. :P~

  • Good channel! Many great and healthy years to you, Clara!

  • i love you!

  • Well done.

  • Clara this was wonderful. To those that can't respect the purpose of what she's doing here on YouTube trying to help families survive during this economic time, at least respect the fact that she's lived long enough to not have to put up with crap from from idiots.

  • how long did this take 0.o? i could of swore that took like 4 hours 

  • I know its weird but she cuts just like my grandmother and I miss my grandma so much. It just makes me think of her :) Im so buying one of her books

  • @Mikuruification Guess what, learn how to use grammar. Before you troll around Youtube talking to random people assuming, they're chopped liver. Seriously, GROW UP & S T O P wasting your time replying to people because it makes you feel good inside.

  • @limegre3n18

    Grammar had nothing to do with it, wHy sO MAD LOL?

  • @Mikuruification By grammar, I meant spelling; just IGNORANT people like you make me mad. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO­LOLOL

  • I think it's better when people make things from scratch rather than buy it in a box because they add all those preservatives an chemicals...no wonder there is so much cancer in the world. People didn't have cancer back then. Now we have all this modern technology and people are becoming more lazy and buying processed food. Who knows where it comes from.

  • Clara, how do you cut the vegetables without cutting your finger, it looks like the knife lands right on your finger after the cut.

  • Looks lovely

  • Seeing you Clara, getting a massage I think was the best part!

    You deserve lots and lots of spoiling!! :)

  • wow talk about bringing back memories. Back in the late 50's early 60's we lived in Morocco and one of the dishes my mother brought back that she made about once a year, because of how time consuming it was to make was couscous. The North African version of couscous is a stew that cooks for hours in a special pot, with an insert for the couscous (the pasta) to cook in. The pasa didn't used to be a 5 minute boxed item that we have now. The ingredients for the stew vary, but the taste is yum.

  • wow talk about bringing back memories. Back in the late 50's early 60's we lived in Morocco and one of the dishes my mother brought back that she made about once a year, because of how time consuming it was to make was couscous. The North African version of couscous is a stew that cooks for hours in a special pot, with an insert for the couscous (the pasta) to cook in. The pasa didn't used to be a 5 minute boxed item that we have now. The ingredients for the stew vary, but the taste is yum.

  • " It looks just like an arab. " hahahahah love it.

  • This is pretty amazing. Clara is awesome!

    

  • I never heard of Couscous until I saw Miss Clara cook it.  I tried the easy ones from the store box and it was pretty good.

    Thanks Clara

  • A lot of us probably have grandmothers and grandfathers that could tell us stories like claras. I learned too late in the game that my grandmother had some stories I'd like to hear, they were written off by my parents as talk that was out of date (farming with mules, how they stretched a dollar, what it was like during the depression and the war as farmers where purchases had to be approved)

    If you have grandparents who are still "with it", they might love to tell you stories of their past.

  • @daw162 I agree. When I was a child, I had great grandparents, great grandmother and grandparents. Now I only have a granddad and no chance of asking more about my nan's childhood. She passed away couple of weeks ago and with her went my chance. So just do it. :o)

    Clara is great and so inspirational. :o)

  • rigamarole

  • Pause the video, click play, then hold 6 for Stoned Old Lady :D

  • I love this lady! 94 years young, and cooking up a storm! What an inspiration!

  • Viva Couscous :)

  • Good does exists on the inter net. Bless you ma'am..

  • this is the greatest click i've ever made

  • nothing cheers you up better than eating depressing food..

  • Remember when you could watch a video without having to sit through a commercial?

    Remember when music videos were uploaded by users and not VEVO1

    Remember when all the info was to the right of the video?

    Remember you could rate a video 1-5 stars?

    Remember the famous yellow subscribe button?

    Remember when the users controlled the site and not corporations?

    WE MISS THE OLD YOUTUBE!

    Post this in every video and lets start a youtube revolution!

  • What a cute lady

  • veshthabuls, mmm

  • This brought me to tears what a sweet lady. :,).

  • You have a wonderful grandson to share this with everyone. What a special lady.

  • 3 people can't boil water

  • Omgg, looks sooo good :DD

  • Did she just say the pot look like an arab? wahahahaa. She is very very cute!

  • You are sooo cute!

  • What a complicated way of cooking cous cous

  • Love your videos! My Grandma is 100 years old and I would give anything to be able to be with her in her kitchen cooking again. You remind me so much of her & her stories about the depression. Thanks so much. God bless you.

  • I love this lady:) She is my cyber grandmom!

  • Besides all of Clara's other great attributes, I figured another reason Paula Dean took to Clara...the butter! I really enjoyed this segment and seeing the pictures of your mother and dad, both good looking people. God blesses you and your family Clara and thank you for sharing with all of us now. Hope you are feeling well and doing okay.

  • my eyes are so full of tears, to youth out here, you should really take heed to this because here is what you call ''a real woman'' god bless her heart. she can cook, clean, healthy, sweet, busy, she gets things done. at 94 she is still at it., a true definition of a woman, she is so cherished and probably don't know it, she probably don't care either. woman like this don't need to fit in or pretend, they are home-makers with purpose and wisdom, this woman along with my grandma are geniuses.

  • Red is really her colour. I like it.

  • Well, that looks very healthy but hard to that process...

  • clara ROCKS 

  • Boy, Clara's not kidding, according to the CPI calculator, $1 in 1932 is worth $16.07 in 2011 dollars. So next time you buy a sack of potatoes for $5, think about Clara and her socks. ;)

  • Ms. Clara has great knife skills. I would have to whimp out and use a cutting board for safety. She said in another video that they did not have a cutting board when she was a girl, so she has years of practice.

    That's an amazing dish!

  • She's awesome. God bless her.

  • ive never wanted couscous so much in my life

  • @Victorian9322 yes because every joke is a racist slur. wake the fuck up. oh and i spell it like PANNIES because only perverts pronounce the t but you wouldn't know because everything is too literal for miss anal over here.

  • @ladybyrd0 Cool story, bro. Does it have a sequel?

  • @Victorian9322 you know it.

  • Now THAT LOOKS GREAT!

  • "It looks just like an Arab"...-_______-

  • @Victorian9322 she's just messing around don't get your pannies in a bunch.

  • @ladybyrd0 spelled "panties" and i'm just saying. lol

  • wow chicago. especially during the great depression. Amazing. I took a class last semester that talked all about the arts in chicago and how things evolved because of the steel production, construction, and other industries. Very cool to see the continuum of that history in a simple video like this

  • no way you joined youtube on my birthday!

  • you're amazing clara.

  • when you get celery, make sure it's organic. celery is one of the dirtiest of the dirty dozen, and by that i'm talking about pesticides, etc

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  • Love Clara's videos, but someone needs to buy this woman better knives. I laughed so hard when she banged the turnip on the cutting board. Clara, you are a jewel!

  • Blacksmith/Miner/Construction Worker sounds like her father was a strong man.

  • don't you all just love internet? everyone (I mean literary EVERYONE) can talk about whatever they want! I praise internet and I also praise you Clara for having the courage to do such thing.

  • @Miriana1231 I'm not even sure if this lady is still alive. her last video stopped in 2009 and I've looked all over the internet and couldnt find anything new about her. Just old stuff.

  • @Miriana1231 sorry I mean the last video is from a year ago.

  • @Miriana1231 you know what? I'm totally wrong!!! ahahaha I never went to her page. She is alive! YAY!!!!!

  • Ahaha lol at 2:45 . Loving the videos <3

  • love it, you remind me so much of my mother-inlaw. she is Italian too, my husband thinks your cute like his mom. she has dementia, I wish i could have learned more from her. gatta have your book.

  • Love your videos, Wish you would put the chicken Dumplings video back up

  • i laughed so hard when she said the pot looked like an arab!!

  • try the greek trahanas they are very similar :D and this recipe blends totaly with thrahanas too :D

  • I just want to give you a biggie hug. You touch my heart. Hugs and kisses.

  • rigamaroo hahaha god love her

  • Such a sweet lady...I like that you keep us in touch with the past, in such a modern way!

  • the only thing about clara and these videos that can make me sad is the fact that clara does not have much time left here on earth... its a sad, cruel thing to say.. but its the factual truth. might aswell 'get used to it', as with every other fact, people usually close their eyes on.

  • I agree with you completely, sjbethke!

  • t..take that little boys shoe, and add it to the broth!!! (fat-pie.com)

  • Thank you Christopher for sharing such an amazing lady with us; her life is inspirational towards helping everyone stop and be thankful for what we have. Take care.

  • "it looks just like an arab" HAHAHAHAH ROOOOFL I FUCKING LOVE THAT HAHAHAHAH!!!! it made my bad day good!! XD

  • "it looks just like an arab" LOOOOOL! XD that made my day

  • love her!

  • i love to think about the fact that claras grandmother probably lived over 150 years ago.. thats .. amazing... i mean technicly she lived before hitler, stalin, roosevelt or chruchil was even born!! must have been pretty damn awesome being there, able to see whats happening with your own eyes... in YOUR country.. too much immigration and international issues today... its taking its toll on the countries themself.. being so busy sticking their nose in every other countries buisness but its own..

  • Made me smile for sure Clara...you're fantastic. Salute!

  • Dear Clara :) m a north african and i do Love your couscous Looks yummy from wer i m :x but i tell you that you can't beat my mum wen it comes to Cous_cous (( Kesksou )) Love u and i Love your Shows !! Respect.

  • love this one - and i love your book

  • kis from Tunis ;-)

  • Since one of my ex girlfriends mother was a Berber woman (specifically from the mountain range in Morocco), I started eating couscous and now you can even see me prepare a meal on youtube! Check out my channel.

  • The pot looks like an arab :p

  • Aww ur sooo sweet we luv u :)

  • 94 WOW...

  • I made this Couscous dish myself, and it was very tasty. I used instant couscous, and my own variation in prep. I boiled the veggies and then strained them, saving the broth to use with the instant couscous. Somehow my couscous was mushy, thanks to the package calling for too much liquid =( I'll def. make again, however with half was much liquid as the package recommended ^^ Overall very good.

  • I love this show! I bought the cookbook and I love it too. I hope she will consider sharing her gardening tips too, maybe a "Great Depression Gardening" show? ;-)

  • BLEEEED

  • My grandma also just used a paring knife to cut almost everything. No big Japanese knives for her.  A small paring knife and she could take almost nothing and make a wonderful meal. She also went through the depression. Clara is utterly genuine which makes her utterly enchanting. Keep them coming!!

  • ive never had a grandma, but watching these videos makes me feel like I have one :) thanks!

  • They also eat this in places like Egypt and Iraq

  • your dad moved to chicago? thats where i live now.

  • Clara do you ever use a cutting board I am Chef I use one should I stop using it to be as a good as cook as you

  • the sauce looks... burnt? haha and i love the racist comment

  • thats how my grandpa peels things! with just a knife. :D awesome.

  • "We don't have to go through all that rigamarole" Love it! :)

  • Looks so good!

  • I am definitely going to look for this book. I hope some of Clara's stories are included. :)

  • I love her! She is so adorable ! I will get the book:-)

  • I love this! People don't cook like this anymore. It's nice to be taught how to prep meals like this it's a wonderful thing not only for my generation to learn but we will be able to share the knowledge with our future children as well. Your knowledge and experience will live on for generations to come Clara thankyou

  • You are awesome Clara! Thank you Christopher for bringing Clara into our lives. ;)

  • I love this lady, which is why I love Youtube. Thanks so much. When I can afford it, I want that cookbook. Thanks.

  • Wow, over 2 hours to make it, or more. I buy it in a plastic jug, all you do is ring a cup of water to a boil, add a little butter and salt to flavor, then add the couscous, turn to fire off, cover it and in 5 minutes it is ready. Great stuff.

  • I want to be a "Clara" in 50 years! She's great. Thanks Clara. Keep them coming.

  • She is wonderful, but watching her cut the veggies makes me nervous.

  • i m from morocco!!!!!!!!!!!!! that s where couscous is originaly from!!!!thank you Clara!!! love ya

  • I just got your book; and my dd insisted we read it cover to cover.You are helping another generation through some tough economic times by sharing what you went through during the Great Depression. It could very well be that countlesss children will go to bed tonight with full bellies and be spared hunger and deprivation because of what you have shared with us all. I pray for continued good health and God's continued blessing on your life for helping othersGod bless you Miss Clara.

  • I saw all the videos of this sow in last few days. Watching her cooking makes me so happy. Clara is very charming in her way laugh. I've been indulged in watching them, so pitty I've already watched all the vidos! I love this story the most that her father came from Tunis and his family came from Italy, how her granma cared her dad.

  • Her relatives MUST learn her recipe, it should be great!!!

  • OMG!!! the BOOK! Where can I get it?

  • n'importe quoi depuis quand on prépare le couscous en tunisie de cette façon???????????c'est la méthode algérienne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!lol

  • I LOVE these shows, so I hope no one takes it personally if i mention that the arabic is wrong. It should be right to left, and the letters should be connected into script :-P

  • i wish all old ladies were as sweet as Clara

  • alot of my cheerful young friends are between 60-100 yrs old . !

  • I come to this place everyday just to unwind. The theme music and just listening to Clara makes me feel so relaxed after a hard and stressed day at work. Never tried your recipes yet, but thanks for having this here.

    What a great stress buster just listening to your stories and the simplicity of the cooking. I wouldn't want to deal with the depression like you had to, but people back in your day were just so kind and thoughtful of one another.

    Wish it was like that today.

  • @jojococoa;

    The women has been cooking for 80 years, she's been alive for 94 years, I think she knows what to do and how to do it. You do things your way, Clara will continue to do things her way, like the past 94 years.

  • What a joy to watch you Clara you make me smile xo

  • Great stories.Thank you CLARA:)))

  • You make me smile Clara.

  • I loved you on the "Daily Show" Clara! I hope that the media is not bothering you or your family though.

    I loved your stories about your grandfather and father. That photo of the handsome man...which one was that? Did you ever meet any of the relatives who may still be in Tunis? (for Clara and Chris) That would be cool to find them huh? I love this recipe! God Bless you Clara and I hope you are here for a long time. (and Bless your grandson for bringing you here to the Internet!) Peace!

  • Love this video on cooking couscous. What a sweetheart Clara is! I want to be her granddaughter, cooking side by side with her in the kitchen, while she tells these stories. Delightful!

  • I love couscous my grandmother made it for me with feta cheese it is the best and it took me two minutes but I could also make it like you made it.

  • Fantastic job on the Daily Show!!

  • Nice to see the proper way to prepare couscous, and of course even nicer to see Clara present this cooking method.

  • I love you clara.I'm going to try this and all the other great recipes.I really enjoy hearing about your family.Thank you so much.

  • I love this lady!! She reminds me of my great-grandma!

  • Love your Videos!

    I am having YT channel problems.

    I will continue to watch, share, rate and enjoy your wonderful videos.

    Raine

  • I love the Arab comment, I love you Clara!

    I wish I was your grandaughter!

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  • I tried this and it is SO nice. I love older people, they're so sweet. :)

  • I recieved Clara"s dvd in the mail the other day. My mom is getting it for Christmas. She'll love Clara like I do, I'm sure.

  • My family did the same thing, they went from Palermo to Tunis

  • Can we all chip in and buy Clara some sharp knives?!?! She badly needs them.

  • What if you couldn't afford sharp knives in the depression?

  • @stdrange

    That's one thing...but today is a different story!

  • @stdrange people usually had knives and whetstones in those days

    in other words...they sharpened their own knives lol

  • every time i see a Clara video, it makes my day. I love her. Can't wait for Artichokes.

  • I love watching Clara, but this video shows a slightly more complicated way of making couscous. To put it simply, chop carrots, onion, celery and saute in a little olive oil and butter. Couscous cooks with equal parts dry to liquid, so once the vegetables are soft, I usually add some frozen peas, salt/pepper and about 1 cup of stock. When the liquid boils, add one cup of couscous, and immediately remove the heat, and sit for 5 minutes. Afterwards, fluff and enjoy

  • mmmmmmm i wish i had time to make it that way today! but this video did give me ideas for the couscous i will take to work today.

    Thanks for the stories!

  • YOU ROCK! Never stop making your wonderful videos!

  • Many thanks for your hard work. Hearning these stories and recipes plants us all in the reality of living good off the hard life. Thank You Again.

  • I love you! I had to subscribe... My new favorite channel! :) You actually remind me of both of my grandmothers,one is 94 as well and very upbeat and just happy. The other loves to cook though! Thank you so much for this outstanding video! God bless you Clara.

  • YOU ARE THE CUTES PERSON EVER!

  • Omg like when I watch some videos my eyes kinda roll off,but watching your videos gets me excited,like my eyes are wide,I was tired, then I came to your videos and now i'm wide awake,cause I'm like shaking my legs cause im like omg what's going to happen next,cause your videos are so fascinating,and their just amazing and your your so cute..(:

  • omg! i effin love u! 94 and still thrivin lol

  • Was the swearing really necessary?

    Have some manners in front of the nice lady :)

  • @SlasherCheetah hahaa, u know they arent really facing this old cook, hello, this is youtube

  • you are adorable! you make me smile! :) xoxoxo

  • clara i seriously love you

  • i love clara,she is so helpful. =)

  • omg! i love you! please do more videos :)

  • aw clara you are too cute!

  • aw Clara is so cute! god bless her, i love her videos, they make me so happy :)

  • Clara, where's your pizza video! I can hardly wait.

  • I heart Clara.

  • how much is the book?

  • perfect

  • I just love your spirit!!!

  • My wife knows how much I love your videos and last night she made a wonderful supper( dinner for non- mainers) and was bragging how she fed a family of four for three dollars. Thank you clara.

  • Every time I see that there is a new Clara video out it makes me so happy!!! She is the type of lady I would love to sit and chat with every day. Thank you Christopher and Clara for sharing a part of your family with me.

  • clara your a hoot! lol