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Being Dead Is No Excuse

The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral

By: Gayden Metcalfe,Charlotte Hays

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Being Dead Is No Excuse

The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral

By: Gayden Metcalfe,Charlotte Hays

A hilarious guide to the intricate rituals, customs, and etiquette surrounding death in the South-and a practical collection of recipes for the final send-off. As author Gayden Metcalfe asserts, people in the Delta have a strong sense of community, and being dead is no impediment to belonging to it. Down south, they don't forget you when you've up and died-they may even like you better and visit you more often! But just as there is an appropriate way to live your life in the South, there is an equally essentially tasteful way of departing it-and the funeral is the final social event of your existence so it must be handled flawlessly. Metcalfe portrays this slice of American culture from the manners, customs, and the tomato aspic with mayonnaise that characterize the Delta way of death. Southerners love to swap tales, and Gayden Metcalfe, native of Greenville, MS, founder of the Greenville Arts Council and chairman of the St. James Episcopal Church Bazaar, is steeped in the stories and traditions of this rich region. She reminisces about the prominent family that drank too much and got the munchies the night before the big event-and left not a crumb for the funeral (Naturally some early rising, quick-witted ladies from the church saved the day, so the story demonstrates some solutions to potential entertaining disasters!). Then there was the lady who allocated money to have "Home on the Range" sung at the service, and the family that insisted on a portrait of their mother in her casket, only to refuse to pay for it on the grounds that "Mama looks so sad." Each chapter ends with an authentic southern recipe that will come in handy if you "plan to die tastefully", including Boiled Bourbon Custard; Aunt Hebe's Coconut Cake; Pickled Shrimp; Homemade Mayonnaise; and Homemade Rolls.

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1401305741

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Somebody Is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet

The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Hosting the Perfect Wedding

By: Gayden Metcalfe,Charlotte Hays

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Somebody Is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet

The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Hosting the Perfect Wedding

By: Gayden Metcalfe,Charlotte Hays

Even if you've never attended a wedding in the South, you'll find laughter in the pages of this deliciously entertaining slice of Southern life and love, complete with recipes, advice, and a huge dose of that famous charm "In the Mississippi Delta, funerals bring out the best in people, while weddings, which are supposed to be happy occasions, bring out the worst." So say Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, authors of the bestseller Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral, who turn their keen eyes and sharp wit from the end of the life cycle to the all-important midpoint. For anyone planning, participating in, or attending a wedding (Southern or not), this book will amuse, entertain, and provide advice for marital bliss, including: It's OK to peek at an etiquette book, but if you rely too heavily on it, people will think that you are not fully acquainted with what is right and wrong. Anything that was not done in the past doesn't need to be done now--consider this before ordering a groom's cake, especially one featuring a fishing-tackle or golfing theme.

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140130575X

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9781401305758

Some Day You'll Thank Me for This

The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Being a "Perfect" Mother

By: Gayden Metcalfe

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Some Day You'll Thank Me for This

The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Being a "Perfect" Mother

By: Gayden Metcalfe

A hilarious guide to that incomparable creature -- the Southern mother. Southern society is arranged along matriarchal lines, since the Southern matriarch is a far more formidable being than the much nicer Southern male. She has to be this way; she was put on earth with a sacred mission: to drum good manners and the proper religion--ancestor worship--into the next generation. In Some Day You'll Thank Me for This, Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, bestselling authors of Being Dead Is No Excuse and Somebody's Going to Die If Lily Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet, deliver up a hilarious treatise--complete with appropriate recipes from those finicky, demanding moms--on the joys, trials, and tribulations of being the daughter of a Southern mother. Including sections such as A Crown in Heaven (a Southern mother's favorite fashion accessory), Grande Dames, Toasting the Southern Mother, and why grandmothers prefer their "precious angel baby" grandchildren to their own "bad" children, this is the perfect gift for any Southern mother -- or daughter of one.

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1401395724

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Book's by Gayden Metcalfe

Being Dead Is No Excuse

Being Dead Is No Excuse

Somebody Is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet

Somebody Is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet

Some Day You'll Thank Me for This

Some Day You'll Thank Me for This

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