Explore the remarkable world of gravestone recipes. Uncover how these memorials preserve family histories and offer a tender, tangible connection to the lives of those who came before us.
Rosie Grant is the creator behind @GhostlyArchive on TikTok and Instagram, where she documents her work researching and re-creating recipes found on gravestones. She is also the author of To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes. Grant works at the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA and is pursuing a food studies certificate through UCLA Extension. Grant earned her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Maryland with a focus on digital archives, where she merged her love of food writing, cemeteries, and archival storytelling. Her gravestone recipe project began during an internship at Washington, DC’s historic Congressional Cemetery.
