Clara's book deal

Publisher's Weekly has just reported on our Cookbook:

SMP Lands YouTube Fav Cannucciari

by Matthew Thornton -- Publishers Weekly, 3/25/2009 4:01:00 PM

Michael Flamini at St. Martin’s beat two other bidders in an auction for Clara’s Kitchen: Wisdom, Memories and Recipes from the Great Depression; Sharon Bowers at the Miller Agency sold world rights. Clara Cannucciari, the 93-year-old grandmother who has become a YouTube and Facebook sensation through films created by her grandson, Chris Cannucciari, will share the dishes she ate during the Depression in the book. She’ll also tell stories about hard times, spinning out a philosophy of how to pull oneself up by the bootstraps when the going gets rough.

Chris Cannucciari will co-write the book, and SMP will publish in October of this year in anticipation of the holiday season. Clara’s YouTube videos, soon to be collected on DVD, have now received over 250,000 hits.

Onion News Network 200th episode!

This is going to be bigger than Battlestar Galactica. Today is the release of the Onion's ONN 200th episode. I can't believe we have done that many. Finding ways to rip off all of the obnoxious news media outlets has been a personal joy. I think we've done a great job.

Great Depression Cooking with Clara cookbook

I just spent the weekend with Clara discussing how we will layout the Cookbook which will come out late October through St. Martins Press. We went over some new stories and recipes that will make this Cookbook as unique as we have made the show.