Food to Die For: Recipes and Stories from America's Most Legendary Haunted Places
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.
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Community Reviews
I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher
A mix between cookbook and supernatural anecdotes. While an interesting twist on the classic cookbook concept, I wasn't wowed, not by the recipes nor the tales. It's fine for the first couple pages then it falls into the same format again and again: Introduce spooky place, mention supernatural happenings that may or may not be real, insert recipe, profit. The recipes were generally simple enough, I think anyone with a modicum of cooking experience could easily follow along and achieve a tasty meal. I found the layout of the book to be quite nice, it looks professional and glossy, but some of the food pictures left a lot to be desired, I think they weren't sure if the pictures should have more of a spooky or an appetizing vibe. A little more food styling could've gone a long way.
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