Food to Die For
Over 50 Recipes and Stories from America's Most Legendary Haunted Places (A Spooky Paranormal Cookbook with Creepy Meals, Eerie Destinations, and Spine-Tingling Ghost Tales)
- Publisher: Harper Celebrate (HarperCollins Focus)
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
Discover tantalizing recipes, spine-tingling stories, and historic photos from the most notoriously haunted locations across America in this fun and fascinating cookbook. Paranormal investigator and Kindred Spirits co-host Amy Bruni leads you through eerie hotels, haunted homes, hellish hospitals, and spooky ghost towns, giving you stories and a recipe from each place. Whether you're in the mood for Lizzie Borden's meatloaf or want to serve up spooky prison stories along with sugar cookies from Alcatraz, Food to Die For is your guide to ghoulish gastronomy. One of America's favorite ghost hunters, Amy Bruni takes you to mysterious hotels, eerie ghost towns, and possessed pubs in this delightfully sinister collection of stories and recipes. Each of the nearly 60 locations in Food to Die For includes: Vintage photographs and charmingly creepy stories rooted in history A noteworthy recipe associated with the people or place Full-color, captivating, and hauntingly styled food photos to inspire a killer kitchen experience Enjoy creepy recipes like: Southern Fried Chicken from the Missouri State Penitentiary Sheboygan Asylum Caesar Salad Cornbread inspired by the Villisca Axe Murder House Absinthe Frappé from the Old Absinthe House Ernest Hemingway's Bloody Mary from Hemingway Home & Museum Vegetable Soup from Waverly Hills Sanatorium This terrifyingly tasty cookbook will bewitch anyone who: Has a taste for the paranormal and a hunger to try new foods Loves history, travel, and culinary curiosities Enjoys entertaining guests in unique and memorable ways Would get goosebumps making a recipe written 300 years ago History buffs, thrill-seekers, and foodies will all get shivers seeing the past come to life with every enchanted recipe and delicious tale from Food to Die For.
Endorsements (4)
“It turns out that Amy Bruni’s curiosity and creativity don’t just make for great TV, they make for a great meal as well. I feel a kindred spirit of anyone who spends so much of their life on the road and whose hard-won, worldly sensibility is reflected through culinary inventiveness. To that end, Amy is most certainly a kindred spirit. Food to Die For is the ultimate companion piece for anyone who has tuned in to her many incredible adventures. All others will just have to settle for an unbelievably great cookbook.”
“This deliciously stylish cookbook will have you longing for a dark and stormy night. Taking us on a culinary tour through America’s paranormal past, Amy sets a sumptuous table where more than the eggs are deviled. An indispensable collection of recipes for this life and the next.”
“Amy’s guide to ghostly gastronomy is everything you could want for otherworldly entertaining. We had so much fun recreating our favorite recipes from haunted historical locations. Try the bread pudding from the Myrtles; it’s to die for!”
“Amy Bruni does something that almost feels like magic in this day and age: She pairs fascinating historical storytelling with real, visceral context. The results, I’m happy to report, are absolutely delicious!”
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