Beyond Delicious: The Ghost Whisperer's Cookbook: More than 100 Recipes from the Dearly Departed

by Mary Ann Winkowski, David Powers

Overview

Beyond Delicious: The Ghost Whisperer's Cookbook includes more than 100 recipes given to her through communication with spirits of great cooks who have passed on. Arranged as 2-page spreads, each entry includes a recipe as well as the story of how the author came to learn it. Beyond Delicious, then, is part cookbook and part ghost story anthology. Together these elements create the most entertaining cookbook of the season.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578605002
Publisher:	Clerisy Press
Publication date:	09/13/2011
Series:	America's Haunted Road Trip
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Mary Ann Winkowski was born in Cleveland, Ohio and has been communicating with earthbound spirits for most of her life. Over the course of work as a paranormal investigator, Mary Ann's reputation has spread. She is a consultant to the CBS hit television show Ghost Whisperer, has appeared on numerous TV and radio news programs, and spoken at countless lectures. Mary Ann has offered her abilities to those in need as far away as New Mexico, St. Lucia, and Scotland and published a book in 2007 called When Ghosts Speak: Understanding the World of Earthbound Spirits. Her abilities have offered solace to countless people, either by reuniting them with loved ones who have died or by removing unwanted spirits and negative energy from homes, businesses or possessions. She lives in North Royalton, Ohio.

Read an Excerpt

Secret Harvard Beets

Joann's husband, Mike, was a social worker at a group home, and to be honest, I'm amazed there was only one ghost that had come home with him. Those who work around troubled people—like the police and firemen and paramedics—tend to bring home ghosts more often than other people. I suppose it makes sense. When someone dies in a high-stress situation, maybe they just tag along with the person who had been trying to help them in the hopes that they can still set things right.

The ghost's name was Jerry, and he certainly needed help. At first he just sort of gave me the chills. He had this odd stare and way of looking through you that made you uneasy. In fact, that's why JoAnn had called me in the first place. Nothing specific had happened, but she felt watched. No matter where she was in the house, she could sense Jerry's eyes on her, watching her but looking past her in the odd way he had. It was an intense stare, and I'm sure even the least in-tune person would have been able to feel his eyes on them. He just gave you the willies. He made you think of someone in a Stephen King book.

"It feels like someone's playing with my hair at night," JoAnn whispered. "I even feel like he's watching me in...the bathroom."

"I'm sure he is," I agreed slowly. Then I said to the ghost, "So why are you here?"

"I don't know," he said in an odd cadence. "I came home with Mike. I like Mike. Mike is my friend. He's my friend so I came home with him. He likes me. He's my friend."

"Oh," I breathed with dawning realization. "JoAnn, I think this ghost is mentally challenged. Did Mike ever mention any mentally challenged guests at the group home?"

"Yes!" she gasped. "Oh my God! Is it Jerry? Jerry was handicapped—he died right around when I started feeling weird."

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Bess's Nut Roll
• Soups
• Vegetables and Sides
• Casseroles
• Beef
• Chicken
• Other Meats
• Cakes and Pies
• Bars and Cookies
• Miscellaneous
• Sweet Miscellaneous
• Final Thoughts
• About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

"Whether you believe or not, the recipes themselves look appealing to those of us on earth, who still have use of our taste buds. NewsFeed has to give Winkowski props for originality." - Time Newsfeed October 2011

"The stories in Beyond Delicious are quick, interesting reads. There’s not a scary ghost story in the bunch. The recipes are old-fashioned family favorites, the kind that typically would be passed down through the generations, and can be enjoyed by believers and nonbelievers alike." - The Wichita Eagle October 2011

"This book is excellent and will make you want to share your recipies with those you love and who are alive for countless centuries." - TheExaminer.com January 2012

" If 'all things creepy' is just your style, here's a thought. When you're planning tonight's Halloween supper, why not include a couple of recipes from ghosts? Weird? Well, yeah! But impossible? Not necessarily . . . assuming you're a follower of Mary Ann Winkowski, Cleveland's "Ghost Whisperer." In Beyond Delicious: The Ghost Whisperer's Cookbook, Winkowski tells tales of more than 100 spirits who had stories to share -- and recipes to go along with them. " -- Joe Crea, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

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