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Unearthing gravestone recipes with Rosie Grant
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Unearthing gravestone recipes with Rosie Grant

An interview with the mind behind Ghostly Archive, the viral social platform that documents recipes inscribed into headstones.
Rosie with Marian Montfort and her Heavenly Daze ice cream in Maine

My first guest storyteller is Rosie Grant, the Los Angeles-based librarian and creator of the viral social media platform Ghostly Archive, on which she chronicles the gravestone recipes she finds around the U.S., most often through crowdsourcing. I had the joy of interviewing her for a piece I wrote for Salon about her project, which she hopes to turn into a cookbook. (You can also follow her incredible work on TikTok and Instagram.)

What I couldn’t shake after our chat was the love Rosie puts into this project—not least through her goal to recreate each recipe and bring it to the graveyard to eat it in the presence of its creator. As you might imagine, the logistics of traveling to these places—which are sprinkled across this sprawling nation—baking the recipe in a borrowed kitchen, packaging and schlepping it to a cemetery, then finding the actual gravestone is no small feat. We chatted about this and Rosie’s decidedly nonlinear process of gravestone recipe documentation, along with the vast world of GraveTok, and how food can help us establish a more positive relationship with mortality. I hope you love this conversation as much as I did.

Eternally grateful, Rosie! 🫶🏻

Naomi Odessa Miller Dawson’s spritz cookies, which started it all.

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