Depression Cooking: In this video, great-grandma Clara makes cooked bread -- good for kids or, as she points out, old people with no teeth.

My new Internet hero is Clara Cannucciari, a 93-year-old great-grandma who has her own YouTube cooking show where she cooks meals from the Great Depression. It sounds like it would be...hopelessly corny, or treat her with the patronizing "old people are adorable" attitude that's so hard to avoid.

Her shows are nothing like that, though. She's just a lady who has been cooking since many, many years before most of the people watching her were born, who has a completely different attitude about food from what you typically see on video when people talk about cooking. Her ideas about what's tasty and good for you are, for people who have followed the wild swings of the low-fat/low-carb pendulum, amusingly consistent with current thinking: her attitude about olive oil is, "We use a lot; it's good for you," and almost everything has a vegetable in it. It goes without saying, of course, that the times are also right for food that truly stretches the budget.

Mostly, though, she's just...lovely to watch. Warmly funny but not at all a ham, she tells stories without rambling, isn't hesitant to say when she's checked with her brother for details of something she forgot, and never seems to be talking down to anyone about the ruination of the culture or how much better or stronger everyone was in the Depression. I just love watching her, and I encourage you to run-don't-walk to her YouTube channel.

(Hat-tip to The Simple Dollar, which wrote a lovely piece about Clara.)