Pesto Potato Pizza for ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ TV Series
A richly satisfying vegan pizza recipe, in tribute to an unbelievably satisfying TV-watching experience
In Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited, Captain Charles Ryder realizes he will be returning with his battalion to the same castle where he spent much of his youth. This unexpected reminder of times past shakes him to his very skeleton, and the outside world is silenced as he’s left in a trance, absolutely kneecapped by memories. That was me, when I saw the distinctive handwriting of Kristy Thomas in the opening credits of Netflix’s new series, The Baby-Sitters Club.
The Baby-Sitters Club books were no mere source of entertainment during my formative years. They were a whole world operating in parallel to mine, and only when I’d got the obligations of my own existence out of the way, could I gratefully retreat into the more preferable lives of the baby-sitters. Back in January, I wrote about the series character Dawn Schafer and her vegetarianism, and assumed upon completion that there was not much more for me to say about The Baby-Sitters Club.
Then I saw the new Netflix series.
Arrogance and doubt squashed any major anticipation of the show’s launch on July 3 of this year — who could…
