She prepares delectable cuisine.
Rosie Grant enjoys experimenting with new recipes, but they always originate from gravestones.
After traveling through cemeteries during the epidemic, the Washington, D.C.-based digital librarian began cooking recipes she discovered on tombstones.
Grant told NPR in January, “You can walk in nature and learn a bit of history about local cemeteries and the people buried there.” Then, posting about really, like, cooking through these various recipes has been a great deal of joy.
Grant has even gone to several states in quest of fresh recipes from the afterlife, documenting her adventures and sharing them to TikTok under the username @ghostlyarchive, where she consistently receives millions of views.
When she was a graduate student at the University of Maryland and taking a program that required her to create a social media account, she created her account as a class assignment. Her internship in the archives of the Congressional Cemetery required frequent visits to graveyards.
She then began offering information and tours about local cemeteries. In January of last year, when she expanded to include recipes on gravestones, her account went viral.
Grant states that she enjoys various recipes, but her favorite is the first one she ever created: a basic spritz cookie.
It is the tombstone marker of Naomi Miller-Dawson in Brooklyn, New York, Grant said Scott Simon on NPR. “I believe that her final gift to her family was a family recipe that she had never shared in her life.”
Frequently, Grant’s films are inundated with comments from fans who have been inspired to bake recipes found on gravestones or who are preparing to offer a recipe.
“The recipe makes a wonderful addition to a tombstone. It reminds us that this individual had a mind, hands, and made things similarly to how we do. one user exclaimed.
Another concurred, “There’s something so beautiful about the dead leaving behind the recipes that sustained them in life.” I believe that their souls must be very joyful.
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