Food to Die For: Recipes and Stories from America's Most Legendary Haunted Places

by Amy Bruni, Julie Tremaine Narrated by Amy Bruni

Overview

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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 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.

The recipes can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Editorial Reviews

host of Restaurant: Impossible Robert Irvine

' 'Food to Die For' is the ultimate companion piece for anyone who has tuned in to [Amy Bruni's] many incredible adventures. All others will just have to settle for an unbelievably great cookbook.'

Booklist

'Bona fide professional paranormal researcher Bruni, a go-to source for reality TV programs, gathers 50 or so U.S. places that have earned the sobriquet haunted, providing ghoulish details plus a recipe or two from each site.'

creator of the Lore podcast Aaron Mahnke

'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!'

host of Expedition Unknown Josh Gates

'This deliciously stylish cookbook will have you longing for a dark and stormy night- An indispensable collection of recipes for this life and the next.'

Library Journal

06/01/2024

Paranormal investigator Bruni combines her work as a TV host, podcaster, author, and self-described foodie to highlight some of the most famous haunted locations in the United States and pair them with recipes that reflect their history and ghostly lore, in a book written with Julie Tremaine. Enthusiasts can read about the Lizzie Borden home and make her killer meatloaf, then get drawn in to the White House to learn about Mary Todd Lincoln's obsession with spiritualism and make her favorite white almond cake. Featured are additional infamous haunted homes, hotels, and landmarks that are showcased with bold photography, along with sometimes-macabre paired recipes. Bruni also includes explanations of the basics of paranormal investigation, which lends credibility to the subsequent stories of hauntings. The recipes, while written a bit inconsistently (some list ingredients first, while others list preparation steps first), offer many options to put on spectacular themed events and dinner parties. VERDICT This niche cookbook will be of great interest to a specific group of readers and cooks, paranormal activity aficionados and fans of ghostly legends in particular.—Ron Block

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160220550
Publisher:	Harper Celebrate
Publication date:	07/30/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged

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