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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Spritz Cookie Gravestone

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Explore the unexpected combination of recipes and graves through the story of Naomi Odessa Miller Dawson’s spritz cookies. This week we’re celebrating the release of our new bookt! It's called Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world's edible wonders. Pre-order your copy, and as a bonus you'll get some mathematically efficient cookie cutters! We’ll be running classic Gastro Obscura-themed episodes of the podcast all week long, so stay tuned for more edible audio wonders! Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/spritz-cookie-gravestone-greenwood-cemetery-cookie

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, about five years ago Atlas Obscura released its first ever book, it was also called

0:07.2

Atlas Obscura, and we are just about to release our next big book into the world.

0:14.7

And this one is called Gastro Obscura, a food adventurers guide.

0:19.5

And it's all about the world's most interesting ingredients, recipes, restaurants, it covers

0:25.3

the whole world.

0:26.9

And it's the result of years of work by multiple people on the Gastro Obscura team.

0:34.0

And so I hope that you're interested.

0:36.4

If you want to check it out, there's a link in the episode description.

0:39.3

And in honor of this new book launch, we're making the podcast this week all about food.

0:45.3

And we're going to talk to some folks from the Gastro Obscura team.

0:50.0

Here today is Sam O'Brien, a writer from Gastro Obscura.

0:54.0

Hi, Sam.

0:55.0

Hi, Dylan.

0:56.0

So I found out you were working on what I think has got to be one of the most unique collections.

1:03.4

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

1:08.0

Its recipes and gravestones.

1:11.3

Yeah.

1:12.3

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

1:17.7

And a grave is just so fascinating because you have such a limited amount of space to tell

1:22.4

someone's story.

1:24.1

So what someone decides to put on there is incredibly interesting to me.

1:30.0

And so just for fun, I always wander around cemeteries and whenever I travel, I visit the

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