Food for the Dead

Food for the Dead

Author: Michael E. Bell

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2013-04-16

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0819571717

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These stories of vampire legends and gruesome nineteenth-century practices is “a major contribution to the study of New England folk beliefs” (The Boston Globe). For nineteenth-century New Englanders, “vampires” lurked behind tuberculosis. To try to rid their houses and communities from the scourge of the wasting disease, families sometimes relied on folk practices, including exhuming and consuming the bodies of the deceased. Folklorist Michael E. Bell spent twenty years pursuing stories of the vampire in New England. While writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Henry David Thoreau, and Amy Lowell drew on portions of these stories in their writings, Bell brings the actual practices to light for the first time. He shows that the belief in vampires was widespread, and, for some families, lasted well into the twentieth century. With humor, insight, and sympathy, he uncovers story upon story of dying men, women, and children who believed they were food for the dead. “A marvelous book.” —Providence Journal Includes an updated preface covering newly discovered cases.


Dining with the Dead

Dining with the Dead

Author: Mariana Nuno Ruiz McEnroe

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781940322384

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Dining with the Dead is an unforgettable cultural and culinary odyssey. Traditional, celebratory Mexican food is the soul of this one-of-a-kind cookbook. Make tamales, pozoles, pan de muerto, and many other festive, iconic dishes. Learn about altars, sugar skulls, and decorations. Unlock the essence of chiles, make scratch tortillas, and perfect the king of the moles. Highlights:? 112+ delicious recipes? 540+ beautiful and mouthwatering photos? 8 x 10-inch hardcover? Ingredients and how to find them and treat them? Numbered instructions? Photographic step-by-step instructions? Homemade foods, created from scratch? Crafting instructions included as well? Learn the origins of Día de Muertos? Learn about altars and ofrendas (offerings)? Venture into the night vigil at the cemetery in Mexico


Butter Off Dead

Butter Off Dead

Author: Leslie Budewitz

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0425259560

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As the national bestselling Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries continue, the merchants of Jewel Bay, Montana, try to heat up chilly winter business with a new film festival. But their plans are sent reeling when a dangerous killer dims the lights on a local vendor... In an attempt to woo tourists to Jewel Bay and cheer up the townies, Erin Murphy, manager of the specialty local foods market known as the Merc, is organizing the First Annual Food Lovers’ Film Festival, filled with classic foodie flicks and local twists on favorite movie treats. But when her partner in planning, painter Christine Vandeberg, is found dead only days before the curtain rises, Erin suspects someone is attempting to stop the films from rolling. To make matters worse, Nick—Erin’s brother and Christine’s beau—has top billing on the suspect list. Convinced her brother is innocent and determined that the show must go on, Erin has to find who’s really to blame before Nick gets arrested or the festival gets shut down. But the closer she gets to the killer, the more likely it becomes that she’ll be the next person cut from the program... INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES!


Double Dead

Double Dead

Author: Chuck Wendig

Publisher: Abaddon Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781907992407

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Coburn's been dead now for close to a century, but seeing as how he's a vampire and all, it doesn't much bother him. Or at least it didn't, not until he awoke from a forced five-year slumber to discover that most of human civilization was now dead--but not dead like him, oh no. See, Coburn likes blood. The rest of the walking dead, they like brains. He's smart. Them, not so much. But they outnumber him by about a million to one. And the clotted blood of the walking dead cannot sustain him. Now he's starving. And nocturnal. And more pissed-off than a bee-stung rattlesnake. The vampire not only has to find human survivors (with their sweet, sweet blood), but now he has to transition from predator to protector--after all, a man has to look after his food supply.


The Dead and the Gone

The Dead and the Gone

Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2010-01-18

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0547422261

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Best-selling author, Susan Beth Pfeffer, delivers a riveting companion to Life As We Knew It in this enthralling tale that follows seventeen-year-old Alex Morales as he fights to survive in the aftermath of apocalyptic events in New York City. Alex Morales is an average high schooler focused on his after-school job, helping his dad out with building superintendent responsibilities, and getting good grades so he can make it into an Ivy League college. But when the moon alters its gravitational pull and catastrophic events ensue, everything changes. Now, he has to care for his younger sisters, decide whether it’s ethical to rob the dead, and keep the hope alive that their lost parents will return. Bone-chilling and harrowing, Susan Beth Pfeffer investigates what it takes to survive when the odds are stacked against you in this captivating story about sacrifice and humanity.


Dead Pets Don't Lie

Dead Pets Don't Lie

Author: Joe Ardis

Publisher: Defender

Published: 2015-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780996409520

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Dog Behavior Expert and Certified Professional Trainer/Instructor Joe Ardis teams up with best-selling investigative author Donna Howell to sound the alarm on shocking practices in the commercial pet food industry. Within these pages, readers are shown the scandalous production practices of leading commercial pet food manufacturers who are knowingly passing off harmful, detestable, and poisonous "foods" as vitamin-rich, healthy, nutritious, complete, and balanced meals for animals across the states. DISCOVER: * Why pets are becoming terminally ill and dying prematurely as a result of eating commercial foods* What the "big commercial lie" actually is, and how food manufacturers are getting away with, and profiting from, deceiving the public * How the FDA has turned a blind eye to devastating food-handling procedures, refusing to regulate appropriately, and how they make it nearly impossible for pet owners to confront the system* Explosive evidence involving animal rendering plants, and the health concerns raised by medical experts * How euthanized and diseased animals (including dogs and cats from vet clinics) are making their way into pet food, and the danger that presents to your animals* How genetically modified (GMO) crops, as well as moldy and contaminated grains, are affecting the health of current, as well as future, pet generations* How to quickly and easily make sense of pet food labels, as well as how to spot major red flags * How to avoid harmful preservatives, dyes, and unnecessary fillers* The three categories of pet diets, and how to assess which of them will be the best fit for your lifestyle* What your pet's nutritional needs are, and steps you can take to meet themRead why Thomas R. Horn, best-selling author, was shocked by "the measure to which the industry has knowingly participated in providing the most nutritionally void, dangerous 'foods' to pet owners--and the lengths at which they will travel to keep their detestable food practices a secret while masquerading their products as 'healthy' with clever advertising schemes and suspect endorsements."


Cooking with the Dead

Cooking with the Dead

Author: Elizabeth Zipern

Publisher: St Martins Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 9780312954833

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A culinary tour describes how loyal Grateful Dead fans have earned money on the road by preparing and selling vegetarian food from the backs of their vehicles and presents a variety of healthy, parking-lot delicacies. Original.