Title Being dead is no excuse : the official southern ladies guide to hosting the perfect funeral / Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays.

Publication Info.	New York, N.Y. : Miramax Books, [2005]
	©2005

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department	395.2 METCALFE, GAYDEN	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	393.9 M56	Check Shelf
South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction	393 METCALFE	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction	641.5975 METCALFE	Check Shelf

Description	243 pages ; 20 cm
Note	Includes index.
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.
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?
Subject	Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
	Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Southern States.
	Cooking, American -- Southern style.
	Cooking -- Southern States.
	Cooking -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
	Cookbooks -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
	Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Social life and customs.
	Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Humor.
	Cooking, American -- Southern style. (OCoLC)fst01753233
	Cooking. (OCoLC)fst01754966
	Funeral rites and ceremonies. (OCoLC)fst00936223
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Mississippi -- Delta (Region) (OCoLC)fst01335203
	Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
Genre/Form	Cookbooks. (OCoLC)fst01752725
	Humor. (OCoLC)fst01423696
	Cookbooks.
	Humor.
Added Author	Hays, Charlotte.
Added Title	Official southern ladies guide to hosting the perfect funeral
ISBN	1401359345: $19.95

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