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Being dead is no excuse : the official southern ladies guide to hosting the perfect funeral / Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays.
- Title
- Being dead is no excuse : the official southern ladies guide to hosting the perfect funeral / Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays.
- Author
- Metcalfe, Gayden
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Miramax Books, ©2005.
- ©2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | GT3206 .M48 2005 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Hays, Charlotte
- Description
- 243 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- 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?
- Alternative Title
- Official southern ladies guide to hosting the perfect funeral
- Subject
- Funeral rites and ceremonies > Delta (Region)
- Funeral rites and ceremonies > Southern States
- Cooking, American > Southern style
- Cooking > Southern States
- Cooking > Delta (Region)
- Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Delta, Région du
- Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > États-Unis (Sud)
- Cuisine américaine du Sud
- Cooking
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Manners and customs
- Customs > Southern funeral
- Recipes > Southern funeral
- Funeral rites and ceremonies > Southern States > Humor
- Etiquette > Humor
- Southern cooking
- Delta (Miss. : Region) > Social life and customs
- Delta (Miss. : Region) > Humor
- Delta, Région du (Mississ.) > Mœurs et coutumes
- Delta, Région du (Mississ.) > Humour
- Mississippi > Delta (Region)
- Southern States
- Southern States > Humor
- Genre/Form
- Cookbook
- Wit and Humor
- cookbooks.
- humor.
- Cookbooks
- Humor
- Livres de cuisine.
- Humour.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 1401359345
- 9781401359348
- LCCN
- 2008300265
- OCLC
- 57966088
- SCSB-11912278
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library