Meet 101 year old Concettina, our oldest pasta making Granny yet! | Pasta Grannies

Concettina (or Concetta) lives in the small town of Morano Calabro in Calabria. She still makes pasta regularly (she had made some the day before we arrived) and while she showed us her recipe, she told us about her life. I hope you enjoy meeting her as much as we did!

[ninababy]

My aunt is 100 and is a Sicilian woman. She lives on her own, cooks and bakes and is our family treasure. We compiled a cookbook in her honor.

[bayr]

"A disastrous life and here I am at 100!" that was powerful and sad at the same time

[saintninansplace]

She looks great for 101. They both look great for their age. Young at heart.

[ritac]

the pasta recipe it's very interesting, but her stories about such a difficult youth and such struggling life made me emotional.

[chriswest]

“Be thankful for everything!” What more could be said.

[fugithegreat]

She's so tiny but emenates force even at her age.

[GiuseppeLeopizzi]

"Too much paper" and I cried remembering my grandmother....

[hengwin]

What a harsh life she's had, and yet there she is, 101 and smiling.

[aleka.]

"Too much paper" - this is a person, who knows what is it: war, poverty, need.

[AlexisDE]

The agility of those fingers at that age. Astounding! What a strong lady packed into such a tiny body, so inspiring to see

[sisis_eyes_wide_open]

What an amazing woman and so sharp and spunky for her age. When she spoke of her husband’s injury and losing her mom at a young age you could hear the pain she still carried with her. I’m sure that was a huge burden that she had to carry growing up with no mom and then having a disabled husband. I remember my mom’s stories of the war and all the suffering they endured, especially in southern Italy.
God Bless Concettina and her family.

[amnesia]

As an Italian my heart melted when she screamed long live Italy

[christineuk]

Who else wanted to stay & hear more about life?

[anthonymarconi]

This episode brings me back to my own ancestry...my grandfather ended up on the Russian front as well. He went to jail twice because he crossed the Italian-French border to be with my grandmother, got deported, and the third time they sent him to war. Right when the axis turned on the Russian, he was caught in between. He lost 80% of his lung capacity because of combat gases and saw things he would not tell. He went on to have a happy and relatively long life with my grandma in France afterward, even if his health was not the best. He's my connexion to Italy, it was not pasta granny for me but pasta grandpa!

[DonatoFaruolo]

“Minestra” in south Italy doesn’t mean “soup”. It means boiled greenery. She keeps listing wild herbs and vegetables, in fact.
And when the man explains how to get that much old, with “piano piano” he doesn’t mean “slowly”, but something like “patiently”, “little by little”, something near to “with endurance and sacrifice”.

[Luca-mvlo]

When she said: "Viva l'Italia", I cried.

[Musettoblu]

The second She started speaking I started crying... I had the amazing fortune of having great grandmother from Calabria that lived to be 105. She was just an incredible person and talked just like that. I wish she could have lived forever...

[boredonyoutube]

She wants to bring his legs to the afterlife :( what an angel that broke my heart :(

[vincenzosplate]

God bless her! Che bello, arrivarci così a 100 anni 😍 complimenti!

[trexfighterpilot]

I'm in my late 30's and for any youngsters watching this video, I have a little tip. Cherish your elderly. They have lived, seen, and know things that you can only imagine. When a person of this age wants to tell you something, LISTEN! You might be the last person they ever give that information to.