Wow. What a very interesting, fun and tasty book this is. This is like no other cookbook I have ever bought or read and I love it. The stories, the history, the food, the fun. I will be putting this one on my coffee table so everyone can read it.

I'm off to try some recipes now so I can share the stories and the makings with my friends and family. Love it.

Thank you NetGalley and Harper Celebrate for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

Macabre vibes and cozy food - what a beautiful combination! Amy Bruni does a knock-out job with Food to Die For. As a professional paranormal researcher, she has been to the places she writes about and can really capture what it would have been to live in the era with the recipes she shares. I love that there is a collection of historic recipes that also have something spooky about them.

Bruni writes about her mom's caesar salad recipe that was never written down and was lost when she passed away. That little bit in the introduction really solidified the effort I have been putting into creating a physical memory of recipes I use with my own family. Living in a time when home cooked foods are becoming less and less common, I found so much pleasure in reading the history as well as the recipes found in this cookbook. Some of the recipes are hundreds of years old! Also, thank you Amy for teaching me where the word 'salary' comes from... I had no idea!

Food to Die For is separated into 6 chapters, including eerie hotels, horrifying homes, other-worldly watering holes, hair-raising historic landmarks, hellish institutions, and ghoulish ghost towns. Each entry has a photo of the location and the recipe - with a dark twist (LOL to the 'Lumpy Dicks' recipe - I also learned that dick is an old-fashioned name for pudding)! This is one of the most unique cookbooks I've read and I'm looking forward to adding both some of the spooky locations to my list of future destinations as well as adding the recipes to try!

Thank you to NetGalley, Harper Celebrate, and the author Amy Bruni for an ARC of this delightfully dark cookbook!

This cook book is an exceptionally inventive and captivating work designed specifically for avid readers of the horror genre. Its pages are filled with a diverse array of elements, from fantastical creatures to sorcerers, and even enchanted fortresses. Furthermore, it boasts a tempting selection of recipes, and the notion of imprisonment or haunted locations may not be entirely unappealing. One's final indulgences would be exquisitely satiated, particularly if they were to sample Lizzie Borden's meatloaf - a dish that requires no implement other than the cook's own preference---maybe an axe!

This is the most perfect coffee table book! With recipes that you can actually prepare, paranormal and historical information you can learn about, and the most gorgeous photos that you can look at - there are so many ways to interact with this book. I really enjoyed the read and heartily recommend to foodies, those interested in historical hauntings, and those who enjoy well-composed photography.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to view the book early! It was such a treat!

I picked two recipes from the book to try with plans to feature one or both along with promotion of the book to Instagram closer to the publication date. Review is currently up on Goodreads.

Food to Die For explores infamously haunted locales and the meals that were common in those places. It has a nice variety of delicious sounding (blueberry maple breakfast sausage) and historically accurate but not quite delicious sounding (prison Nutraloaf) recipes, and contains a menu of different combinations. I really enjoyed the pictures of the meals and locations. I will be cooking my way through this one, starting with the Villisca Cornbread and Conjuring House Pot Roast.

I really enjoyed this book. It was the perfect mixture of facts, recipes and photos. I'm not really interested in ghost hunting but after reading this I would love to visit some of the locations.

This was a treat to enjoy. I am deff gonna buy this when it comes out. thank you netgalley, Thank you Amy Bruni as well for the chance to get an arc of this.

“Food to Die For" is a very clever concept for a cookbook. The illustrations are dark and beautiful. Every recipe included is from a different haunted location. I appreciate that ghost stories are included for each location. This book is a fun intersection of horror, true crime, and cooking! Thank you to NetGalley and Harper celebrate for providing me with an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

This was such a fun cookbook. I enjoyed the stories that went along with the recipes. The food photography was fun and themed which I appreciated. Recipes were straightforward and pretty easy to execute. I know this book will definitely not be for everyone, especially if they don't like true crime (even in older instances people are sensitive to these topics which is totally valid), but for the right person this book is a total hit - the author knows her audience for this! The layout was also gorgeous and well-themed.

Amy Bruni is my favorite lady in the paranormal world, so when she announced she was coming out with a new book that included food and ghost I knew it was going to be good! This book exceeded my expectations, reading about haunted places and getting a recipe along with that place is just such a fun idea and it works. I can’t wait to get a physical copy of this book so I can display it in my kitchen. If you love food and ghost get this book!

I LOVE this! It's combines my two greats loves, hauntings and cookbooks. The stories, history, photographs are amazing and the recipes are to DIE for. I'm so excited to try them out!! The world needs more cool cookbooks like this!

I received a copy of this eBook from netGalley for a honest review.

OMG! This book is so cool. Part travel guide, part cookbook, part ghost hunters guide. It is filled with interesting information. The recipes look yummy and seem easy to do and in no way scary. The places the recipes come from though give off some definite spooky vibes. It makes me want to visit some of these places.

I was drooling by the time I finished this book!!
There are some fantastic recipes in here, and great stories to go along with it. I highly recommend giving some of them a try. It will make for a spookily perfect meal!

Amy Bruni has created a masterpiece here, and I look forward to seeing a copy in print, as there are many more recipes I would like to put on the table.

Are you a fan of haunted house stories?
This book takes the most famous haunted hotels, restaurants, houses, jails and boats of America and offers a historical recipe from that place.
The real value of the book is mainly in the local histories and strange ghost stories and other occurrences listed within the pages. It is fiercely researched and beautifully designed in a very retro kind of way with images of every single place and food it talks about.
The recipes are from their time period and not very appetising, except for a beautiful pecan pie and the crumbed oysters - probably because I'm partial to those. There is a lot of soups, meat stews and breads, which is to be expected. I liked the regular cocktails which offered a nice change. The suggested menus at the end is also a nice touch.
I enjoyed this curiosity, though I won't be cooking from it.

This was a little delightful cook book! I usually don't read cook books but I was so intrigued by this one! Recipes from notoriously haunted places in America! I loved reading the history and looking at the pictures!

Thank you NetGalley, for the arc!

What a unique and creative cookbook. I really enjoyed this book. While sharing history and stories from some of America’s most legendary and well known haunted places the author includes a recipe for each place. The illustrations are amazing. With vintage photos and vibrant pictures of the food you are drawn into the book. Packed full of those haunted stories we all love. This is perfect for those history buffs, paranormal seekers and anyone looking for a new kind of cooking adventure. You're going to want this book for your library, to share with family and friends and just to sit and enjoy all the great stories and history. I have found my favorites and some places I have been, like Tombstone, the Stanley Hotel and the Mark Twain house. We loved this little adventure and you will too.
I would give a thousand stars

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

Unfortunately, this cookbook was just okay. I gave it three stars for the stories; haunting and captivating, I really enjoyed the tales written throughout. This was not just a book of spooky tales though. It is a cookbook, and sadly the recipes really didn't hit. Most of them are extremely generic and only tangentially related to the stories (I did like that the Borden recipe was actually penned by her! That was more what I was expecting).

Not bad by any means, but not exactly what I was expecting. I would still pick this up if you're a lover of ghost tales, or know someone who loves cooking and watching Ghost Hunters!

3⭐️

The concept of this book is very interesting. The photos are gorgeous, stories are intriguing and gripping, but I personally didn’t feel a huge connection since I’m not a paranormal believer. I’m going to be frank about the recipes, as a person who loves to cook and is also full of morbid curiosities the prospect of this cookbook was very exciting to me, but happened to be anticlimactic. Most meals referenced here are nothing special, nevertheless, it might be fun to make a spooky themed dinner.

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book!

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Cute little book. I enjoyed reading the stories and histories behind the places, but none of the recipes really struck me as anything I'll actually make.

Spooky collection of haunted places and food! Perfect for fans of the paranormal but also like to cook/bake. Would make a great bday or Christmas gift. I love that the pictures weren’t just pretty versions of the food. They each have a dark element.

Highly recommend checking out Food to Die For by Amy Bruni. And check out her show, Kindred Spirits and her book, Life with the Afterlife.

Thank you to NetGalley, Amy Bruni, Julie Tremaine, and Harper Celebrate books for the opportunity to read Food to Die For. I have written this review voluntarily.