Many of us have beloved recipes—but only a few have created a dish so good they’ll take it to the grave
The oldest I’ve come across is from 1994. It’s modern gravestones that are very personalized with hobbies, pets, favorite quotes. If you go to Congressional Cemetery, a lot of the modern graves have interesting memorabilia. There’s the famous “gay corner,” which was created during the AIDS epidemic. Some cemeteries would not bury a person if they died of AIDS or were openly gay—Congressional would. Leonard Matlovich, an activist, was buried there—he started the gay corner.
There is a strong tie between food and death, and the rituals. What are some surprising things you’ve discovered about the connection?? I always think about that scene at the end where the villain is eating a dish that he had from childhood [and it transports him back]. Both of my grandmothers died during the pandemic. One would make the same yellow cake with chocolate icing for all of our birthdays—I’m one of 32 grandkids, Irish Catholic—and she would make it every year.
I wasn’t aware of the importance of community connection. A lot of cemeteries are at risk—particularly around DC. We’ve lost several minority cemeteries that were bulldozed or repurposed. There’s a famous one in Laurel, Maryland that turned into a parking lot. So the more a cemetery is connected to its community, the better for the health of the cemetery itself. Some of the comments I’ve gotten [on social media] are like, “I think it’s so weird that you go into cemeteries. You must get haunted.
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