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Highlights
- Discover tantalizing recipes, spine-tingling stories, and historic photos from the most notoriously haunted locations across America in this fun and fascinating cookbook.
- Author(s): Amy Bruni
- 288 Pages
- Cooking + Food + Wine, Essays & Narratives
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About the Book
Paranormal investigator and Kindred Spirits host Amy Bruni brings together haunted history with ghoulish gastronomy in this designed, story-infused cookbook of nearly 60 locations across America. Discover the eerie hotels, haunted homes, hellish hospitals, and spine-tingling ghost towns through stories and photos, each with a notable recipe to try.Book Synopsis
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.
Review Quotes
'A delight for foodies and thrill-seekers alike!'--Woman's World
'Hauntingly good recipes--an ode to history in the kitchen'--Garden & Gun
'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.'--Josh Gates, host of Expedition Unknown
''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.'--Robert Irvine, host of Restaurant: Impossible
'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!'--Aaron Mahnke, creator of the Lore podcast
'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.'--Booklist