Corpse Cakes and Funeral Pie: A Short History of Eating Grief
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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The Importance of Jewish Food Traditions
In Japan, for example, the dead will come down to the realm of the living and dance with you. They say that you serve rice cake because in the mouths of the dead, when they go back to report on the realms of the living, their mouths will be stuck together so they can't say anything bad about you. Indonesia and Sulawesi, you take the people out of their graves every year and you clean them up,. You brush their hair. And it's even traditional to leave the corpse in your living room for a year or two until you can save up enough money to give your relative a nice funeral.
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