Media Consumption
‘Little Women’ and a Perfect Pink Frosted Vegan Cake
The latest film of Louisa May Alcott’s classic is true comfort clothed in magic; just like this simply but beautifully decorated cake
This is another installment in “Media Consumption,” a series of essays and recipes that take culinary inspiration from our favorite movies, TV shows, songs, and books.
When you already hold a film like Gillian Armstrong’s 1994 Little Women so deeply in your heart and have done since you first saw it at the impressionable age of nine — well, that same heart can be a little suspicious of new adaptations. After finally watching Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel — and I say “finally,” because with the onset of coronavirus it feels like at least nine months has passed since the film’s late December release — I am happy to confirm my heart has space to hold two versions.
Gerwig’s Little Women, which was just released to blu-ray and to rent digitally, is genuinely glorious, with dialogue that feels crackling and modern and naturalistic, a…
