Hi, I'm Manila Morales, a producer on the show.

This week, the Atlas Obscura staff is sharing some classic episodes about some of our all-time

favorite objects.

And the one I want to tell you is about a gravestone.

But it's not just any gravestone.

There's a cookie recipe on it.

And the backstory to this is pretty charming.

Here's today's episode. Here today is Sam O'Brien, a writer from Gastro O'Brien. Hi, Sam.

Hi, Dylan. So I found out you were working on what I think has got to be one of the most

unique collections.

And it's a combination of two things that you don't, wouldn't think would go together.

It's recipes and gravestones.

Yeah.

Well, I've always been interested in cemeteries and graves and the stories they tell.

And a grave is just so fascinating because you have

such a limited amount of space to tell someone's story. So what someone decides to put on there is

incredibly interesting to me. And so just for fun, I always wander around cemeteries. And whenever I

travel, I visit the local cemetery.

So I'm always on the lookout. Yeah, for fellow Taffafile, I assume. Yes, yes, of course. Taffophiles unite.

Yeah, so one of my favorite cemeteries is Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. And I heard about a very unique gravestone, known as the Spritz cookie grapstone. And so basically

what that is, is it's a grave and it tops off in an open book. And you've probably seen graves like

that before. They're open and then they might have a scripture verse in there or something. Yeah, sure. And so here,

...