Perre Coleman Magness' latest cookbook came to be in sort of a funny way, particularly for a book about feeding the bereaved.
"The publisher asked me if I would be interested in doing a book on funeral food because it is a 'trending topic,' " she says. "I said that I could do one on Southern food, but not one for Lutherans in Minnesota or Italians from Brooklyn."
While she mulled it over, she called her mother, also a writer and also named Perre Magness.
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