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Food to Die For: Recipes and Stories from America’s Most Leg…


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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 historyA noteworthy recipe associated with the people or placeFull-color, captivating, and hauntingly styled food photos to inspire a killer kitchen experience

Enjoy creepy recipes like:

Southern Fried Chicken from the Missouri State PenitentiarySheboygan Asylum Caesar SaladCornbread inspired by the Villisca Axe Murder HouseAbsinthe Frappé from the Old Absinthe HouseErnest Hemingway’s Bloody Mary from Hemingway Home & MuseumVegetable 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 foodsLoves history, travel, and culinary curiositiesEnjoys entertaining guests in unique and memorable waysWould 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.


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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Celebrate
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 30, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1400245591
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1400245598
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.3 x 1 x 10.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Cocktails & Mixed Drinks #1 in Holiday Cooking (Books) #1 in Halloween Cooking
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Customers say

Customers enjoy this cookbook’s recipes that are based on haunted places, featuring a wide variety of food and drink options. The book is well-researched, providing great historical information about each location, and customers find the stories interesting and fun to read. They appreciate the beautiful photographs and consider it perfect for the spooky season, with one customer noting it’s ideal for dinner parties with a twist.

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