50 Years of Claire's!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Claire's Cornucopia turned fifty. I love Claire and I love
Claire's food turned fifty with fifty thousand hugs. I could
hug Claire herself fifty thousand times, and I will do
it today if she were so inclined. Community community, community,

(00:24):
to be sure. But I mean, she's got a nice
little location right there and where all the action is
downtown New Haven. It has been there a long time.
I think of her late husband often, just a wonderful,
wonderful man, played a huge role in my early years
in radio, and I still frequent Claire. It's one of
my favorite things. Was turning my daughter onto it. She

(00:46):
was down there since she was a baby, but kind
of didn't remember it right on the corner there of
College Street when she started frequenting it while going to
school and really getting into the MANU classmate of hers
was working there. Staff is always college kids. It's vegetarian
jim No. But listen, I've never said this to Claire
before either. And I've got her cookbooks and signed by

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her set a couple of cookbooks published, and she'd get
mad at me about that. I'd love it. I'd love
to have her on she's just a wonderful woman. Claire Criscola.
The food is insane. It's decadent. Like it's decadent. So
you could say vegetarian. Yeah, it's all vegetarian. And the
cheese it would be like lac tate freas it. That's gooey,

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delicious cheese on top of your nachos with re fried beans.
You know, it's all written up, very nice. The desserts,
and they'll be written up in a way like this.
This triple layer chocolate cake is only made with fresh cocoa.
From then you eat it. It's like that was so decadent.

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I mean, great veggie burger there too. I'm a sucker
for those jim if they're good at a place that
makes a good one, I'll get it every time. When
you get those, like you can tell it's frozen patty
on the But they had a crowd there yesterday on
the corner of College and Chapel, or a day before
you have excuse me, fifty years. I guess I'll check
my spam for the invitation. Claire, who I always have

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a nice cocktail with whenever a show opens at the Schoebert.
Although it's been wire she bakes a bread. It's just
it's like half brown the grain, it's like half brown,
half white. It's the most delicious bread you've ever had.
A wonderful establishment that's been successful, crowded in the thick
of all the action for a good long time, and

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rightly so. And again I saddens me that her wonderful husband,
who opened Basta just a few doors down, passed long ago,
didn't stick around significantly longer. Loved that guy. And they
say they celebrated the fact that they've been serving healthful,
fresh meals to a health conscious New Haven. Yeah, but

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nobody's going to convince it. The food is too. Thank you. Then,
I've had burritos there, I've had the pancakes there. There's
no way healthier. Yes, healthy. I don't know Claire, but
she has partnered with local schools to include locally grown produce.

(03:18):
The Lithuanian coffee cake is legendary and as I said,
published cookbooks fifty years of Claire's Cornucopia. Rock On, Love you, Claire,