Since her initial foray into baking that gravestone recipe a year ago, Rosie Grant has made several other recipes she found in cemeteries across the country. Baking delicacies by the deceased has become somewhat of a hobby. (via The Washington Post)
She now ends her TikToks with: “Another recipe to die for.” She is on a perpetual hunt for more epitaph dishes.According to Loren Rhoads, a lecturer on cemetery history, and the author of“In all the cemeteries I’ve seen, I’ve never seen a gravestone with a recipe on it,” said Rhoads, adding that she’s visited “hundreds of graveyards.”It’s a charming concept, especially since, “in the Victorian era, sometimes women didn’t even get their own names on their gravestone,” Rhoads said.
Recipe epitaphs actually make a lot of sense, Rhoads said, given the tie between food and death. In times of sadness and grief, food serves as a comfort and source of nostalgia.“There is this connection with food and death,” said Grant, adding that she lost both her grandmothers during the pandemic, and whenever she eats a meal that they once made for her, “it brings me that much closer to them.”
“Food is this weird entryway to talking about harder topics like death. We don’t want to think about our own mortality, but through talking about food and memorializing, it’s a little more palatable,” said Grant, who works as a librarian, and recently moved to Los Angeles. “I am extremely uncomfortable with death. This whole process has been a way for me to grapple with these harder topics.”
Grant has made recipes from gravestones in New York, Iowa, Alaska, Louisiana, California, Utah, Washington and Israel. Beyond making the recipes, she also hopes to visit the graves of all the people whose final resting place is under their favorite ingredients. So far, she has made it to three — including Kay Andrews’s in Utah.
“My goal is to go to all of them,” she said. “I would love to cook the recipe and taste it at their graveside as a cheers to this person who gave this gift to me and to everybody else.”
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