Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
My guest Rosie Grant has a library science degree from the University of Maryland and now works at UCLA as an archivist. She is well known on social media as a "cemetery tiktoker" who researches recipes found on gravestones in cemeteries across the U.S. She shares her story and how she began to collect these gravestone recipes and cook them to honor the people who left them behind. We also discuss the value of exploring cemeteries and the treasures that can be found there. Learn more at her website and social media sites:
ghostlyarchive.com
Social media: @ghostlyarchive
This episode includes:
🍃 How Rosie got interested in gathering gravestone recipes
🍂 The benefits of visiting cemeteries as part of travel
🍃 Rosie's inspiration to visit the gravestones she has learned about and to prepare the recipes she has found there
🍂 How food is connected to death and grief
🍃 How Rosie finds gravestone recipes to cook
🍂 Other interesting cemetery discoveries Rosie has made
🍃 Talking about gravestone recipes is a less threatening way to approach the subject of death and dying
🍂 How she finds gravestones that contain recipes
Links mentioned in this episode:
🍃 Showmen's Rest Cemetery: atlasobscura.com/places/showmen-s-rest
🍂 "City of Souls" - town of Colma CA: colma.ca.gov/departments/cemeteries
🍃 Find a Grave: findagrave.com
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My guest Rosie Grant has a library science degree from the University of Maryland and now works at UCLA as an archivist. She is well known on social media as a "cemetery tiktoker" who researches recipes found on gravestones in cemeteries across the U.S. She shares her story and how she began to collect these gravestone recipes and cook them to honor the people who left them behind. We also discuss the value of exploring cemeteries and the treasures that can be found there. Learn more at her website and social media sites:
ghostlyarchive.com
Social media: @ghostlyarchive
This episode includes:
🍃 How Rosie got interested in gathering gravestone recipes
🍂 The benefits of visiting cemeteries as part of travel
🍃 Rosie's inspiration to visit the gravestones she has learned about and to prepare the recipes she has found there
🍂 How food is connected to death and grief
🍃 How Rosie finds gravestone recipes to cook
🍂 Other interesting cemetery discoveries Rosie has made
🍃 Talking about gravestone recipes is a less threatening way to approach the subject of death and dying
🍂 How she finds gravestones that contain recipes
Links mentioned in this episode:
🍃 Showmen's Rest Cemetery: atlasobscura.com/places/showmen-s-rest
🍂 "City of Souls" - town of Colma CA: colma.ca.gov/departments/cemeteries
🍃 Find a Grave: findagrave.com
_______________________________________________________________________
🍃 Subscribe to my email list: eepurl.com/ExfLL
🍂 Support your local bookstore by buying my books on Bookshop: bookshop.org/lists/books-by-karen-wyatt-md and Indiebound:
7 Lessons for Living from the Dying : indiebound.org/book/9781786783110
The Journey from Ego to Soul: indiebound.org/book/9780982685563
🍃 Subscribe to this podcast on
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/end-of-life-university/id1033282990
Google: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9sZXNzb25zZnJvbWR5aW5nLndvcmRwcmVzcy5jb20vZmVlZC8
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7bdr4odBlaaDy8NoJhcFsL
iHeart Radio: iheart.com/podcast/256-end-of-life-university-31099550
Stitcher Radio: stitcher.com/show/endoflife-university
🍂 Check out the Series I’ve recorded in the past: eolupodcast.com/series
🍃 Join the team at my Patreon page patreon.com/eolu and get access to the EOLU mug: “Mind if we talk about death?” (only Patrons can purchase it). PLUS get our new bonuses: the monthly EOL News Update, movie reviews from 2 Doctors and a Movie, and automatic access to A Year of Reading Dangerously!
🍂 Intro Music Credit:
"Bright Wish" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
