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Being Dead is No Excuse : the official southern ladies guide to hosting the perfect funeral / Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Metcalfe, Gayden.
- Hays, Charlotte, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Mississippi--Delta (Region).
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Southern States.
- Cooking, American--Southern style.
- Cooking, American.
- Cooking--Southern States.
- Cooking.
- Cooking--Mississippi--Delta (Region).
- Delta (Miss. : Region)--Social life and customs.
- Delta (Miss. : Region).
- Delta (Miss. : Region)--Humor.
- Manners and customs.
- Mississippi--Delta (Region).
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- cookbooks.
- humor.
- Cookbooks.
- Humor.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (donor) (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- [10], 243, [3] pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First edition
- Distribution:
- New York : Hyperion,
- Other Title:
- Official Southern Ladies guide to hosting the perfect funeral
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Miramax Books, 2005.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- Kislak copy has "From Kit Conell" written in ms. on front free endpaper.
- Kislak copy inscribed "October 2005. To Chef Fritz, Many thanks and much gratitude for your friendship and food knowledge. Kit Conell".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Metcalfe, Gayden. Being dead is no excuse.
- ISBN:
- 1401359345
- 9781401359348
- OCLC:
- 57966088
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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