Kicker: Recipes carved in stone

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Some families leave words of wisdom on the gravestone of a loved one. Others leave dessert.

GRANT: …and they thought, well, why not put her recipe on her gravestone. And it’s such a beautiful marker and memorial to this woman who loved baking.

Rosie Grant is an archivist and self-described taphophile— someone drawn to cemeteries and their stories….heard there on the podcast End of Life University.

Grant documents culinary headstones, from spritz cookies to tea biscuits. And she makes every one of those recipes, even the apricot ice cream:

GRANT: Thank you for giving me this moment. (laughs) It felt like she was giving me that gift… a shared meal with the person…. even if the memory of a person felt very important.

Recipes carved in stone, a sweet slice of women’s history.

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