What is your current total count of the recipe graves you found?

At this point, there are at least 18 recipe gravestones around the world.

One of my favorites is in Nome, Alaska. It's a cool grave

just in terms of its shape because it's like a mini obelisk and there are different

designs and inscriptions on each side of the obelisk and one of those

sides has a recipe for a no-baked chocolate oatmeal cookie and at the very bottom it's got an engraving of a cool whip container.

So there's a lot to love about that grave.

Like the actual brand cool whip, like the yeah yeah that that tub that we all know and love. Yeah, that's right at the bottom of this obelisk.

Man, that's a real commitment.

You got a real commitment. You gotta love the whip, yeah. You have got to really love flu whip to be like,

put it on the grave, baby.

For the uninitiated,

recipe graves are exactly what they sound like.

Imagine a big marble grave stone with a recipe for cookies etched into it.

I'm D'Antheras, and this is Atlas Obscira,

a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

And today I am talking to Gastro Obscira's

senior editor and our very own recipe grave beat reporter, Sam O'Brien.

Today Sam is going to tell me the story behind the mysterious Cool Whip Grave. And we're going to go a little deeper to talk about not

just how food and recipes can help us remember the dead, but how in some cases

they help us heal from our grief. More after this. So let's talk about that cool whip gravestone. How did you first come across it?

I first came across it on like a travel blog

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