Recipes written on tombstones. Who knew this was even a thing?

Most headstones list names and dates, in rare cases they include something much more personal: beloved family recipes permanently etched in stone.

Rosie Grant traveled the world to research and write a cookbook full of culinary epitaphs from across the globe—spritz cookies from Brooklyn, chicken casserole from Wisconsin, tea biscuits from Nova Scotia, fudge from Salt Lake City, meatloaf from Texas….

The list goes on—40 recipes--from soup (from Buffalo, New York) to nut rolls (from Israel).

On this journey, Rosie discovered that food is a love language and that memories of meals shared as a family are passed down through generations.

Just in time for the holiday season, TO DIE FOR invites us to gather round the table, celebrate the legacies that live on in family recipes and to ask ourselves the question at the heart of it all: If you could be remembered through just one dish, what would it be?

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