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Now indeed, with The Secret Garden Cookbook: Inspiring Recipes from the Magical World of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden author Amy Cotler presents a totally delightful and also simply and utterly perfect gem of a literary cookbook.
For yes and in my in this case actually not so humble opinion, The Secret Garden Cookbook: Inspiring Recipes from the Magical World of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden truly is an absolutely fascinating and wonderful tome, featuring not only over forty traditionally Yorkshire (and indeed also all totally scrumptious looking) recipes and which incarnations are indeed generally located right smack within the pages of The Secret Garden (such as for example the porridge that Mary Lennox refuses to eat when she first arrives at Misselthwaite Manor or the out of doors cooked eggs and potatoes with which Dickon temps Mary and Colin in the secret garden when their appetites have returned but they still want to keep this a secret from Mrs. Medlock until Colin in strong enough to surprise his father) but also and for academic inclined I including both a wonderful and enlightening introduction on how food and its own magic and sense of nourishment play such an important role for Frances Hodgson Burnett in her The Secret Garden as well as enlightening details on English (and of course by this also mostly Yorkshire) culinary history (and all of this embellished and graced by quotes from The Secret Garden and yes indeed, very much appreciatively, also with many photographs of the end products of the featured recipes).
And of course and naturally, with my total and heartfelt delight with and in both Amy Cotler’s printed words and her presented recipes as well as considering that I have always wanted to own a cookbook of Yorkshire recipes (not to mention that The Secret Garden is and remains one of my absolutely favourite novels of all time), there is indeed no way that I would and could rank The Secret Garden Cookbook: Inspiring Recipes from the Magical World of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden with anything less than five glowing stars and to highly and warmly, smilingly recommend it.
For yes and in my in this case actually not so humble opinion, The Secret Garden Cookbook: Inspiring Recipes from the Magical World of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden truly is an absolutely fascinating and wonderful tome, featuring not only over forty traditionally Yorkshire (and indeed also all totally scrumptious looking) recipes and which incarnations are indeed generally located right smack within the pages of The Secret Garden (such as for example the porridge that Mary Lennox refuses to eat when she first arrives at Misselthwaite Manor or the out of doors cooked eggs and potatoes with which Dickon temps Mary and Colin in the secret garden when their appetites have returned but they still want to keep this a secret from Mrs. Medlock until Colin in strong enough to surprise his father) but also and for academic inclined I including both a wonderful and enlightening introduction on how food and its own magic and sense of nourishment play such an important role for Frances Hodgson Burnett in her The Secret Garden as well as enlightening details on English (and of course by this also mostly Yorkshire) culinary history (and all of this embellished and graced by quotes from The Secret Garden and yes indeed, very much appreciatively, also with many photographs of the end products of the featured recipes).
And of course and naturally, with my total and heartfelt delight with and in both Amy Cotler’s printed words and her presented recipes as well as considering that I have always wanted to own a cookbook of Yorkshire recipes (not to mention that The Secret Garden is and remains one of my absolutely favourite novels of all time), there is indeed no way that I would and could rank The Secret Garden Cookbook: Inspiring Recipes from the Magical World of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden with anything less than five glowing stars and to highly and warmly, smilingly recommend it.
