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we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones
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All pay rent to the cemeteries, helping fund the upkeep of gravestones while serving as community gathering spaces.
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Diana Hubbell, Saveur, 16 Oct. 2025
In Ferndale, California, Christine and her husband are doing pre-planning and have already purchased and engraved their gravestones in a beautiful cemetery.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Daniella Santoro, a PhD candidate at Tulane University, never expected to find an ancient Roman gravestone in her backyard, but that’s exactly what happened one day in March as her husband was doing yardwork.
—Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Thus began a search for other gravestone recipes, and eventually this book, a moving compilation of the recipes that defined lives and dinner tables.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025
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Diana Hubbell, Saveur, 16 Oct. 2025
In Ferndale, California, Christine and her husband are doing pre-planning and have already purchased and engraved their gravestones in a beautiful cemetery.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Daniella Santoro, a PhD candidate at Tulane University, never expected to find an ancient Roman gravestone in her backyard, but that’s exactly what happened one day in March as her husband was doing yardwork.
—Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Thus began a search for other gravestone recipes, and eventually this book, a moving compilation of the recipes that defined lives and dinner tables.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravestone. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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