Food to Die For
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Food to Die For
Food to Die For
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.
Discover tantalising 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 favourite 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 FrappΓ© 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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781400245598
Publisher: HarperCollins Focus
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 12 September 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Harper Celebrate
Contributors:
- With Julie Tremaine
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 211.0mm
Height: 260.0mm
Weight: 1210g
Pages: 288
About the Author
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, sheβs the co-star and executive producer of The Travel Channelβs 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 Americaβs most notoriously haunted destinations. She is the author of Life with the Afterlife, and currently resides in Newport, Rhode Island. Julie Tremaine is a βghostβ 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.
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