"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, she decided to bake the cookies and share a video of the experience on her TikTok account, @ghostlyarchives."
"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."
An archivist discovered a spritz cookie recipe etched on Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson's gravestone at Green-Wood Cemetery and baked the cookies, posting the results on TikTok. Viewer responses revealed additional gravestone recipes across the United States, prompting a project to locate, cook, and document them. The project resulted in a 40-recipe cookbook that reproduces gravestone inscriptions while supplying missing measurements, context, and biographical details to make each recipe cookable at home. The cookbook connects food to memory and legacy and highlights personalized modern gravestones that commemorate home cooks and community figures who hosted holidays and volunteer events.
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