When I heard Leonard Maltin and his daughter Jessie Maltin put out a new book, I was not expecting anything to do with cooking or food. However, this new book is a pure delight fully up to Maltin standards.
As well as including great recipes, this book is also a survey of 25 delightful family friendly films sure to make a great movie night for the whole family. These selections stretch over eight decades from Charlie Chaplin's The Kid (1921) to Disney's Enchanted (2007). Each movie selected is a sheer delight and the variety (while all of them are still family friendly) is excellent. In true Maltin style the writing about each movie is wonderful. It is very informative and provides a great critical insight while remaining completely unpretentious. After reading Leonard and Jessie's' writings I wanted to watch all of these films, even the ones I have seen a million times.
I have not made any of the recipes yet but hopefully will (the ones without meat anyway) someday. The pictures of the food look delicious, and I got hungry just reading some of these recipes. While I have not made them yet, the instructions seem simple and easy to follow.
The movies included in this book are The Kid (1921), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Captain January (1936), The Wizard of Oz (1939), National Velvet (1944), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), Singing in the Rain (1952), Calamity Jane (1953), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), Sounder (1972), Star Wars (1977), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), A Christmas Story (1983), The Princess Bride (1987), Honey I Shrunk the Kids (1989), The Addams Family (1991), The Secret Garden (1993), A Little Princess (1995), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and Enchanted (2007).
A great book.
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