Cuisine To Kill For with Amy Bruni - The Paranormal Podcast 950
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How did Amy Bruni expand from Food to Die For into Cuisine to Kill For?
Cuisine to Kill for Next on the Paranormal Podcast with Amy Bruni.
Welcome to the Paranormal Podcast. I am Jim Harreld, and I am so glad to be with you again. I'm very excited about this. Now, we're recording this a little early, but by the time you see this, this book will be out now. One of my favorite things, in addition to the paranormal and paranormal podcasting, is food. Can't you tell? And there's a great cookbook out now in July, and it's called Cuisine to Kill for Recipes and True Crime Stories from the World's Most Haunted Places. And yes, you see it right on the screen. Our guest today is Amy Bruni, and we're so glad to have her back on the show. She's a paranormal investigator. author, TV personality, podcaster, and executive producer with more than two decades of experience.
Co-host and executive producer of the travel channel hit Kindred Spirits, she appeared in over 115 episodes of Ghost Hunters and hosts the true crime podcast Haunted Broad. She's founder of Strange Escapes and the USA Today bestselling author of Life with the Afterlife. Her debut cookbook, Food to Die, for which we did an interview on as well, earned a devoted global following and directly inspired reader demand for this book. Again, cuisine to kill for recipes and true crime stories from the world's most haunted places. Amy Bruni, welcome back to the show. Thank you for joining us today.
Hey, thanks for having me. It's good to see you.
Well, good to see you. Good to see you again. So, yeah, tell us about the success of this first book, because obviously, you know, we did an interview for it. And I said, this is an interesting way to go. And it was a beautiful book. But tell us, I mean, that really was a big hit, wasn't it?
Yeah. I mean, it was one of those things where, and I'm sure you understand this, I'm always trying to keep the paranormal my career in some way, shape, or form. So I'm always trying to think outside the box. What can I do that's different? What can I do that hasn't been done before? What can I do that I love and keeps me interested? And I love storytelling, history, and I love cooking. And so for me, I was like, what if I just made a cookbook based on you know, haunted locations and recipes associated with them. And famously, I was inspired by Lizzie Borden's meatloaf recipe. The Fall River Historical Society posted a recipe card of her meatloaf recipe. And I was like, will people actually eat that? And turns out they will.
A lot of people will. And it just really resonated with people. It was something different. And it's been so fun And so it was just, you know, immediately we started working on a follow up, which became Cuisine to Kill for.
So in doing Cuisine to Kill, this this follow up book, what was the criteria for a place to be selected? How did you find them? How did you research them? And how did you pick the ones you picked?
Well, one of the things that I really enjoy is true crime. You know, I feel like sometimes the paranormal and true crime go hand in hand just because we end up in a lot of locations where terrible things have happened or they have a really bloody history. And so the criteria for this book was I wanted to go to locations and feature locations that had hauntings that were associated with a true crime of some sort. And so... And also, the first book was domestic, so it was all US-based locations. And this one, because Food to Die For had so many international fans, this one I wanted to make sure we also went international. So Cuisine to Kill For has 60 recipes, but half of them are international locations.
And so that was kind of the criteria, a bloody history, some sort of recipe that we could make at home associated with it and ghosts and, you know, international is great too. So it was hard to narrow it down, but we came up with some really great places.
Well, it's one of those things I've always believed that there is kind of a Venn diagram between true crime and the paranormal. And there's definitely an overlap. In fact, for many years, I did a true crime show.
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