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Early gravestones were made out of wood and that would eventually decay.

And then they were made out of marble and marble sort of falls apart.

Now where it's being made out of granite, so it'll last a lot longer. That's very tough material. I actually have granite countertops in my kitchen. And that's making me feel like I would like my actual granite countertops that I spend so much time standing over where I cook all the meals from my family. I think maybe that's what my headstone should be made. I want them to cut a rectangle out of the countertop.

Now, there might be some food embedded in there, so maybe the analysts will get to it. But that's what I want my gravestone to be. That is so genius. And the first time I've heard someone say that. And I am obsessed with this idea. That's a good reason to get granite countertops. Yeah, good investment. You're going to be using it for all time.

This is the Sporkful. It's not for foodies. It's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman. Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people. And before we get into it, I have a quick, important announcement for all you pasta lovers out there. National Pasta Day is coming up. friends at Svalini and I are celebrating with 20% off all their pastas. That includes my

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All right, on to the show. It's October. Halloween's coming up. Of course, we're thinking about

candy, but we're also seeing a lot of ghosts and skeletons and gravestones everywhere.

So it's no accident. There's a new cookbook that just came out called To Die For, a cookbook of gravestone recipes.

The author is Rosie Grant, and these gravestone recipes are her specialty.

Now, when I say gravestone recipe, I mean gravestones, like in a cemetery that have recipes written on them,

instead of, or in addition to, a standard epitaph.

If you walk through a modern cemetery in particular, you'll see literally anything that's important to the person

will be reflected on a gravestone or could be reflected.

You might see what their hobbies were, what their pets names were, a joke, like an inside family joke, a QR codes. Like literally anything can end up on a gravestone these days. They put QR codes on gravestones now? Yes. That's the new thing. That's commitment. I mean, it's funny because like, you know, 20 years from now, I'm sure that we're going to be like, ha, ha, QR codes. But I guess, you know, whatever we're going to put in your headstone is going to be outdated eventually. I should even add, I've seen several QR codes and all of the QR codes lead to a broken website. So to your point. That's the thing. You know, your descendants have to remember to pay the annual fee for the URL. Yeah, exactly.

Rosie has long had a fascination with cemeteries. She grew up near one and often walked through it on her way home from school. Her parents loved to take the family on ghost tours whenever they traveled. And her parents even became ghost tour guides when they retired. So it seems to run in the family.

But it was by chance that Rosie ended up working in a cemetery and developing her current obsession.

In 2021, while the pandemic was still raging, Rosie was in grad school, planning to become a librarian.

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