"Faux_Pseudo" > wrote in message
news:qDEGg.4671$W01.3178@dukeread08...
> _.-In rec.food.cooking, Melba's Jammin' wrote the following -._
> >> Does it really matter how the desserts were displayed?
> >
> > It does. :-P How am I going to uphold and protect my reputation as
> > Dead Spread Critic Weirdo if I doesn't comment on presentation? Really!
>
> After checking the link in your sig I couldn't help but think of a
> nice big coffee table book of food for the dead. Recipes and tomb
> stones.
>
> While looking at the pictures in the link I was thinking that massive
> comfort foods would be at a funeral, not ham sandwiches. Where are
> the big ol' pots of stew, the potato dishes or cheese cakes that are
> so heavy that one spoonful or slice could cause the folding table to
> buckle under the load?
>
> I have photographed 17 of the local cemeteries[0] but I try to
> get there after the people have already gone home for the day so all I
> find are the fresh flowers and mound of dirt. The last thing most
> people need is some guy walking through their moment of need with a
> camera, wild hair and a jeans and a T-Shirt. I can only assume that
> you are being invited so you have a leg up on me.
>
There are a number of cookbooks that are specialty themed for foods taken to
funerals along with funeral customs that usually accompany them.

Hey, Barb, I was raised Baptist, did they have the raisin pie?
-ginny