Back on May 28, 2011 I blogged about How will you be remembered? I showed eight examples of gravestones at the Morris Hill cemetery. Some thoughtfully included a bench or seat.
Rosie Grant’s book To Die For: A cookbook of gravestone recipes shows another delicious way to be remembered – via almost 40 recipes on the back (or top) of gravestones. There is an article by Michele Hermann at Smithsonian magazine on October 10, 2025 titled A Recipe Engraved on a Gravestone Helps to Remember the Dearly Departed and Keep Part of Them Alive. It begins by showing a recipe for Spritz Cookies on top of a gravestone for Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson in Brooklyn, New York. (Spritz cookies are extruded from dies on a cookie press).
There is another article by Sharyn Jackson in The Minnesota Star Tribune (and The Union Democrat) for January 10, 2025 titled Taking their beloved recipes to the grave which shows the Easy Potato rolls from page 104 of book and in my cartoon.
An earlier article by Todd Tanner at East Idaho News on May 29, 2021 is titled Family shares story behind fudge recipe on Utah headstone. It has Kay’s Fudge, which is shown beginning on page 84 of the book.
Another earlier article by Sam O’Brien at AtlasObscura on October 31, 2023 titled The Family Recipes That Live On in Cemeteries includes Bonnie June Rainey Johnson’s No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies, shown beginning on page 13 of the book. And it also includes Ida Kleinman’s Nut Rolls recipe (from Rehovoth, Israel) shown beginning on page 96 of the book and originally written in Hebrew.
The gravestone cartoon was adapted from one at OpenClipArt.
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