First published 2019
Wini Moranville brings the March family kitchen to life with over 50 recipes pulled directly from Louisa May Alcott's beloved novel. She transforms the foods that delighted Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy into modern recipes readers can actually make. The cookbook includes everything from Hannah's Pounded Potatoes to Amy's Picnic Lemonade, plus the sweets that captivated the sisters like Blancmange and Bonbons with Mottoes. Moranville covers all meals from breakfast through supper, featuring the Chocolate Drop Cookies that Professor Bhaer shared with Meg's twins and the hearty dinners Hannah taught the girls to prepare. Full-color photographs accompany each recipe, while quotes from the original novel and stories about Alcott herself weave throughout the pages. This cookbook lets fans of Little Women step into the March household and taste the foods that nourished one of literature's most cherished families.
Genres: fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century, 19th-century, cookbooks, food-and-drink
Vibes: cozy, emotional, intimate, nostalgic
Tropes: found-family, nostalgia
Setting: March Household
Period: 19th Century
112 pages · Hardcover · Harvard Common Press