Funerals and mourning highlight different cultural traditions around food
Funerals and mourning highlight different cultural traditions around food
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Halloween may be over but we still have All Souls Day to eat spooky things and think about death. Vermont author and journalist Lisa Rogak recently published a Kindle version of her 2004 book to help you do just that. The book Death Warmed Over: Funeral Food, Rituals, and Customs From Around the World catalogs rituals from African-Americans to Zoroastrians, offering interesting trivia and recipes in between.
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