
Corpse Cakes and Funeral Pie: A Short History of Eating Grief
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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How to Move Forward in Life Without the Dead
In Hindu Brahmin culture, 16 rice balls are traditionally offered every day over 12 days. There's a feeding of the dead as they pass from one world to another. In Hawaii we have these great cemeteries and you'll drive by and people will put big Macs on the tombstone in order to milk the cakes.
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