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.

Amy Brunei's "Food to Die For" is a gastronomic journey though the weird and creepy. The recipes look delicious, and the stories and photos are really interesting. I really like this book, it's genius.

Special thanks to Netgalley and Harper Celebrate for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I LOVE this cookbook. It was informative, beautifully done, well well-researched, and the recipes are fun.

The story behind each place was great (and gave me a good list of vacation spots)! The recipes were also very straightforward and I can't wait to try them out.

3.25/5

A mix between cookbook and supernatural anecdotes. While an interesting twist on the classic cookbook concept, I wasn't wowed, not by the recipes nor the tales. It's fine for the first couple pages then it falls into the same format again and again: Introduce spooky place, mention supernatural happenings that may or may not be real, insert recipe, profit. The recipes were generally simple enough, I think anyone with a modicum of cooking experience could easily follow along and achieve a tasty meal. I found the layout of the book to be quite nice, it looks professional and glossy, but some of the food pictures left a lot to be desired, I think they weren't sure if the pictures should have more of a spooky or an appetizing vibe. A little more food styling could've gone a long way.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Celebrate for the ARC!

An interesting idea of a book, but it seems a little... over-designed. Half spooky travel coffee table book with the basics of each 'haunted' place, half haphazard recipe book with something tangentially related to that place. I would've preferred much more about each individual place and their hauntings rather than pages of photos, personally. I doubt I'll go back to it for more than a recipe or two. As someone who is very much into the spooky aesthetic and who also loves to cook, you'd think this book hits my sweet spot, but it just... doesn't. Disappointing.

Amy Bruni's Food to Die For is the perfect balance of a cookbook and collection of paranormal tales from the United States. I have loved the shows she has appeared on throughout her career, so I feel like I was a bit predisposed to enjoy this book as well. Even without any previous knowledge or interest in ghost stories, the historical information Bruni provides is a fantastic introduction to the stories of each location. I bookmarked several of them as places to look into when planning future trips with my friends. The recipes are written in a manner that is simple and straightforward. I appreciate the inclusion of the information about where the recipe is adapted from as a description on the recipe page. I also enjoyed the very last section where Bruni includes suggestions on how to pair up recipes for gatherings. It was very fun! I highly recommend this cookbook to anyone interested in the paranormal or general history that is off the beaten path.

I love cookbooks and food histories that allow for multi-layered interaction with them, and this is an excellent example of that concept being executed adeptly by the author.

The recipes here are paired with the haunted history of a location they have a connection to, and I was delighted by the idea of making some of these and then sharing the related haunted history from the book with my husband while we eat.

I thought the photography was beautiful and evocative, and the haunted histories intriguing and well-researched. I prefer the inclusion of recipes with a real connection to the original purpose of the place rather than, say, something currently being served in the restaurant of the location in its current iteration as a tourist attraction. I’m also not sure about the recipe section from jails. Sure, the haunted histories of these are just as interesting as the rest, but is anyone really going to make these? They are, in most cases, foods meant to keep inmates alive, not things to be enjoyed.

In all, it’s a really solid collection of tales and recipes and a great concept that was well-executed by the author. My favorite section was that on Haunted Hotels, but there’s loads of good stuff in almost every section of the book.

The history in this book was amazing! I'm not one for it but I'm down for spooky places. I tried a few of the recipes and they were really good. I cannot wait for this to publish so I can have a physical copy

Cooking is something I struggle with. I am a super picky eater and most of the time cookbooks are filled with recipes that I either can't make or don't sound appetizing. But Food to Die For not only has a few recipes that I would like to try out, but it also is filled with super interesting histories of the places those recipes are inspired by. I can't wait to make Mary Todd Lincoln's cake.

5 stars

This is so very up my alley. An intersection of some of my favourite things - food and spooky things. I loved the photography in the book I loved flipping through it and the written sections were also interesting. So pleased to have been granted this ARC!