The Unofficial Home Alone Cookbook

A “highly nutritious” mac and cheese dinner is a good excuse to build December’s Home Alone rewatch around something besides a bowl of popcorn. The Unofficial Home Alone Cookbook by Adams Media includes that dish alongside a “lovely” cheese pizza and Kevin’s sundae, giving you a menu with references your fellow annual rewatchers will recognize. For a Christmas movie night, pizza for dinner and a sundae afterward sounds like a sensible amount of commitment to the theme.

The unofficial tie-in makes the most sense as a gift for someone who grew up watching Kevin defend the house and now hosts the holiday gathering. The food references are the reason to choose this particular cookbook; if the recipient has no affection for the movie, cheese pizza and mac and cheese are unlikely to make the case on their own. But for the friend who puts Home Alone on every December, there’s a useful idea here: make the food part of the evening, rather than just wrapping up another piece of movie memorabilia. A Christmas party with a Kevin-inspired dinner gives everyone something to recognize before the opening credits.