From KCRW, I'm Evan Kliman and you're listening to good food.

Happy Halloween!

I wonder what's lurking in the graveyard this time of year.

Is it ghosts, zombies, or maybe it's just your

grandmother's blueberry pie recipe. While some people hand down a box of

recipes on note cards, others choose a more permanent route, etching the signature

dishes of their loved ones on their tombstones.

Rosie Grant discovered the phenomenon of graveyard recipes as a grad student at the University of Maryland and she joins us now.

Hi Rosie.

Hi.

When did you first encounter a tombstone that had a recipe on it?

Well, so it all kind of started for me while in grad school for library science.

I had to pick a project where we basically were

creating like networks and like content online so I picked Tik-Toc and at the same time I was interning at a cemetery in Washington, D.C.

And I needed to pick kind of like a niche area, so my professor recommended I do it about

my cemetery internship.

So that was kind of my first foray into cemeteries.

So I was posting about different gravestones and things that I was learning during the internship.

And it was through that that I first heard about

this gravestone in Brooklyn, New York that's a Spritz Cookie and it's just it's not even that this woman

like cookies or like Spritz Cookie. It's the actual ingredients listed out

for the grave of Naomi Miller Dawson.

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