"Who'd have guessed that the place to find a killer spritz cookie recipe would be inside a cemetery? But that's just where Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson's cookie recipe lives, etched in stone at her final resting place at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. When archivist Rosie Grant, who was was completing an internship at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., learned about this recipe on a gravestone back in 2021,"
"So began her quest to cook the recipes and learn the stories of the people behind them a project that eventually yielded an entire 40-recipe cookbook. Grant's book is more than a cookbook copying over these recipes etched in stone, however. It also explores the intersections of food, legacy and memory, while providing background information and missing details to enable anyone to cook these recipes at home."
Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson's spritz cookie recipe is carved on her gravestone at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Archivist Rosie Grant, interning at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., baked the gravestone recipe in 2021 and posted the results on TikTok under @ghostlyarchives. Viewers identified other gravestone recipes across the United States, prompting a project to locate, cook and document those recipes and the lives behind them. The project grew into a 40-recipe book, To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes, which supplies clarified instructions, historical context and biographical details to make the recipes cookable and to connect food with legacy and memory.
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