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Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide To Hosting the Perfect Funeral
enlarge	Author: Gayden Metcalfe Publisher: Miramax Category: Book List Price: ~~$19.95~~ Buy New: $5.94 You Save: $14.01 (70%) New (51) Used (46) Collectible (12) from $4.89 Avg. Customer Rating: 86 reviews Sales Rank: 7931 Media: Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 272 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8 Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.6 x 1 ISBN: 1401359345 Dewey Decimal Number: 395.230207 EAN: 9781401359348 ASIN: 1401359345 Publication Date: March 16, 2005 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Condition: SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! NEW Book! May have remainder mark. Most orders ship within 1 BUSINESS DAY with ORDER CONFIRMATION.

Customer Reviews: Read 81 more reviews... Extraordinary Southern Dishes Plus Humor December 28, 2008 Gayden has done an awesome job of exposing a Southern ritual and the appropriate dishes that go along with a true Southern funeral. Sounds like a good Episcopalian. Thanks for an excellent recipe book. Great Book! December 20, 2008 Due to family occupation, I've grown up around funeral homes all my life. This book is a perfect display of southern hospitality when it comes to times of mouring. BUT, this book is hilarious! Serious laugh out loud stories of women in the South. It does have several of their favorite recipes, none of which I have tried yet, but am sure I will. Great book, I'd recommend it! Made a great Book Club party! December 5, 2008 After a dozen, "Ain't it awful" novels that our book club chose I could stomach no more. I begged! I pleaded! Please, read this book as it is delicious and fun! After months they relented IF I agreed to host book club. Not only did I host book club but I used the premise of the book, the Methodist vs the Episcopalian funeral cookoff! I made a selection of foods from each of the groups and placed them at opposite ends of the table. Not only did it make a delicious evening but the stories from the book relating to funny funeral incidents "gave permission" for our book club members to share their funeral stories. The evening grew into one regale of laughter, sharing and fun. They told stories that had burned within their souls for years if not generations. They shared moments not acceptable within "polite company" but found safety within their bookclub sisterhood to share, to laugh, to cry. Those stories and the laughter went on into the depths of the evening. The food was amazingly delicious, and hearts left with much less weight on them. I received many thank you notes and thank you calls declaring it the best book club in memory. They all ran out to buy the book as well as including it on their gift list for others. This book is a gem in delicious food and tantalizingly funny stories....of this, all of our Southern ladies agreed. Try it, you'll like it! A great little book! October 18, 2008 Delightful and entertaining text plus outstanding recipes. A great gift idea for special women in one's life. You don't have to be southern! Nostalgia for plantation life?!!! July 9, 2008 1 out of 6 found this review helpful Apparently I am the only reader who found parts of this book DEEPLY offensive. The author practically swoons over those fabulously fortunate [white] folks who owned plantations. I think we all know who provided the labor force on said plantations. Thus nostalgia for slavery is pretty much undisguised. I quit reading and returned the book to the library at this point. I'm white, but I hate to think what an African-American would experience reading portions of this "humor" book. I'd give it zero stars or, if it were possible, negative stars.

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