Just wanted to share my delight in finding a copy of the Little House on the Prairie cookbook (Author: Barbara M. Walker) at a used book sale last week. I picked it up for a sentimental lark, but on reading it this weekend, I'm struck by how much of those books, and the series shaped my sense of food and cooking all these years later.

Some of my feelings of what is basic about American cooking, and some of my fondest childhood cooking memories come from these books. Who here tried making maple syrup or molasses candy in the snow after reading Little House in the Big Woods? So many recipes, from Popcorn balls to Cornbread, sparked memories of 10 year old me pretending to live off the land in my prairie skirt pretending I was Laura Ingalls.