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 Frappe 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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' '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 * 'A delight for foodies and thrill-seekers alike!' * Woman's World * '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 * '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 *
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Höhe: 259 mm
Breite: 204 mm
Dicke: 24 mm
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978-1-4002-4559-8 (9781400245598)
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Amy Bruni is a professional paranormal investigator, author, podcaster, and TV host. In 2007 she began appearing on Ghost Hunters, one of the longest-running and highest-rated paranormal television shows. Now, she's the co-star and executive producer of The Travel Channel's Kindred Spirits and host of the true crime podcast Haunted Road. Amy is the owner of Strange Escapes, a company offering paranormal excursions to some of America's most notoriously haunted destinations. She is the author of Life with the Afterlife, and currently resides in Newport, Rhode Island.
Julie Tremaine is a "ghost" writer and cookbook author whose work includes Supernatural: The Official Cookbook, Seinfeld: The Official Cookbook, Disney Villains: Devilishly Delicious Cookbook, The Office: The Official Party Planning Guide to Planning Parties, and Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned About Ghosts with Amy Bruni. She currently resides in Los Angeles and Providence, Rhode Island.
