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Dinner with the Dead: The Bizarre & Peronal Halloween Food History & Stories
Discover the strange, often personal history of Halloween food, the dark origins of trick-or-treating, and the forgotten rituals of feasting with the dead. In this episode of Family Tree Food Stories. Hosts Nancy May and Sylvia France reveal the bizarre, macabre, and deeply personal traditions surrounding death, grief, and Halloween food.
From medieval English soul cakes and Victorian cemetery picnics to Mexico’s Day of the Dead altars and top-shelf scotch toasts to departed parents, and the grandma who died in the living room surrounded by her family, all got drunk on wine. This episode…
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