12 Funeral Foods And The Stories Behind Them - The Takeout

12 Funeral Foods and the Stories Behind Them

The Takeout shares photos, descriptions, and stories behind twelve foods that are commonly served at funerals and wakes or given to grieving people. These include corpse cakes, which actually rose on the bodies of the dead before burial, a Pennsylvania Dutch pie made of raisins, and kollyva, which is a Greek cake decorated symbolically.Pictured above is a Texas funeral cake, which is a type of Texas sheet cake. It's made with buttermilk and cove…

12 Funeral Foods And The Stories Behind Them - The Takeout

Given the inherent connection between mourning and eating around the world, we gathered a collection of popular funeral foods from throughout history.