From KCRW, I'm nothing climate, and this is good food.

Calling all ghouls, ghosts, goblins, and creatures of the night, forget the monster mash.

It's time for a monster bash.

And who better than Elvira,

Mistress of the Dark,

to help us dig up a few delicious recipes

for the Halloween season?

Cassandra Peterson,

the woman behind the pop culture icon,

has written Elvira's cookbook from hell.

Hello, darling. Yes, sir, it's Lilo me, that gal with a shape that drives me.

Elvira. Mr. Sout the dark. Hi, Cassandra. Hi. I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to be on your show.

We are equally thrilled to have you.

This is a big deal for me. I'm beyond thrilled. I'm just like, this is like a dream come true.

For us, too. Tell me a bit about your background. Where did you grow up?

I was born in Manhattan, Kansas, the little

apple, and grew up mostly in Colorado, Colorado Springs, but I moved away when I was 17 and

kind of never, never came back. I'm curious what you grew up eating when you were a kid.

Oh, dear. You don't even want to know. Sure we do. My mom was, she was not a cook,

and she did not have time to cook. There were three kids, and she ran a business, a costume shop.

How do you like that? I didn't know that vegetables

came anywhere from a can until I was 12 years old. I honestly didn't. I thought they appeared in cans.

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