BEING DEAD IS NO EXCUSE
Subtitle: THE OFFICIAL SOUTHERN LADIES GUIDE TO HOSTING THE PERFECT FUNERAL
Publisher: Miramax
Published: March 16, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781401359348
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Regional & Ethnic - American - Southern States; Etiquette; American Regional Cookery; American Satire And Humor; Southern style; Humor; Cooking / Wine; General; Form - Essays; Cooking / General; Southern States; Entertaining - General; Cookery, American
First sentence: After the solemnity of the church service and finality of the grave, the people of the Mississippi Delta are just dying to get to the house of the bereaved for the reception.
Description: 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?