Being dead is no excuse : the official southern ladies guide to hosting the perfect funeral / Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays.
A Southern hostess shares the secrets of throwing the proper Southern funeral in a compilation of humor and recipes that answers such essential questions as: Can you be properly buried without tomato aspic? and Who prepares better funeral fare, the Episcopal ladies or the Methodist ladies?
Record details
- ISBN: 1401359345
- ISBN: 9781401359348
- Physical Description: 243 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Miramax Books, [2005]
- Copyright: ©2005
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Dying tastefully in the Mississippi Delta -- The Methodist ladies vs. the Episcopal ladies -- Who died? Stuffed eggs, etiquette, and delta pâté -- I was so embarrassed I liketa died -- Comfort food: there is a balm in Campbell's soup -- Suitably boxed: meringue shells, pecan tassies ... and you -- The restorative cocktail.
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- Subject:
- Funeral rites and ceremonies > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Southern States.
Cooking, American > Southern style.
Cooking > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Cookbooks > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Delta (Miss. : Region) > Social life and customs.
Delta (Miss. : Region) > Humor. - Genre:
- Humor.
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- 1 current hold with 48 total copies.
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