Funeral food is a tradition that won't die

January 24, 2018 at 1:00 a.m. | Updated January 22, 2018 at 10:19 p.m.

by The Commercial Appeal , Jennifer Biggs

Author Perre Coleman Magness, posing for a portrait at Elmwood Cemetery, has written her second cookbook, "Funeral Food With a Twist: The Southern Sympathy Cookbook," released last week. Her mother, also Perre Magness, wrote a book about Elmwood Cemetery and from that endeavor, the younger Magness was able to gather humorous obits written over the years.
Author Perre Coleman Magness, posing for a portrait at Elmwood Cemetery, has written her second cookbook, "Funeral Food With a Twist: The Southern Sympathy Cookbook," released last week. Her mother, also Perre Magness, wrote a book about Elmwood Cemetery and from that endeavor, the younger Magness was able to gather humorous obits written over the years.

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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