Ep. 453 Gravestone Recipes: Cooking to Honor the Dead with Rosie Grant

End-of-Life University

Learn about Rosie Grant’s unique project to memorialize those who have died by cooking their special recipes.

My guest Rosie Grant has a library science degree from the University of Maryland and now works at UCLA as an archivist. She is well known on social media as a “cemetery tiktoker” who researches recipes found on gravestones in cemeteries across the U.S. She shares her story and how she began to collect these gravestone recipes and cook them to honor the people who left them behind. We also discuss the value of exploring cemeteries and the treasures that can be found there. Learn more at her website and social media sites:

ghostlyarchive.com

Instagram: @ghostlyarchive

YouTube Channel

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This episode includes:

• How Rosie got interested in gathering gravestone recipes
• The benefits of visiting cemeteries as part of travel
• Rosie’s inspiration to visit the gravestones she has learned about and to prepare the recipes she has found there
• How food is connected to death and grief
• How Rosie finds gravestone recipes to cook
• Other interesting cemetery discoveries Rosie has made
• Talking about gravestone recipes is a less threatening way to approach the subject of death and dying
• How she finds gravestones that contain recipes

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Keen Class with Mary McLaughlin; Previous episode
• Book recommendation: The Sweetest Therapy by Chase Cassine
• Showmen’s Rest Cemetery
• “City of Souls” – town of Colma CA
• Find a Grave

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