Description: Illuminating how cooking and corpses both transform and construct social rituals, Dying to Eat serves as a fascinating exploration of the foodways of death and bereavement.
Brief description: Candi K. Cannis assistant professor of religion in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core at Baylor University. She specializes in comparative religion, death, and bereavement and is the author of The World Religions: Essential Readings and Handbook.
Review Quotes:
Dying to Eat offers a multifaceted study of death in relation to food...the essays [are] appealing, exhausting, saddening, and yet deeply educational.
-- "Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture"