Food to Die For: Recipes and Stories from America's Most Legendary Haunted Places

by Amy Bruni, Julie Tremaine (With)

Overview

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

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400245598
Publisher:	Harper Celebrate
Publication date:	07/30/2024
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	38,925
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

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, 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.

Editorial Reviews

' '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.'

host of Restaurant: Impossible Robert Irvine

'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

'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!'

creator of the Lore podcast Aaron Mahnke

'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.'

host of Expedition Unknown Josh Gates

06/01/2024

Paranormal investigator Bruni combines her work as a TV host, podcaster, author, and self-described foodie to highlight some of the most famous haunted locations in the United States and pair them with recipes that reflect their history and ghostly lore, in a book written with Julie Tremaine. Enthusiasts can read about the Lizzie Borden home and make her killer meatloaf, then get drawn in to the White House to learn about Mary Todd Lincoln's obsession with spiritualism and make her favorite white almond cake. Featured are additional infamous haunted homes, hotels, and landmarks that are showcased with bold photography, along with sometimes-macabre paired recipes. Bruni also includes explanations of the basics of paranormal investigation, which lends credibility to the subsequent stories of hauntings. The recipes, while written a bit inconsistently (some list ingredients first, while others list preparation steps first), offer many options to put on spectacular themed events and dinner parties. VERDICT This niche cookbook will be of great interest to a specific group of readers and cooks, paranormal activity aficionados and fans of ghostly legends in particular.—Ron Block

Library Journal