Recipes Etched on Gravestone for All Eternity

The discovery inspired Ms. Meier to co-write a zine during the pandemic on the gravestone recipes she deceptive. She titled it “Cooking With the Dead.”

“Recipes are such a beautiful way of remembering people,” said Ms. Meier, 37, who lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn. “You’re still following in their footsteps and putting ingredients together the way they did.”

In Nome, Alaska, Bonnie June Johnson was known for her strict leadership of the town’s Division of Motor Vehicles office and for the sweetness of her no-bake oatmeal cookies, said her daughter, Julie Johnson Szczech, 52, of Fairbanks, Alaska. The recipe was inscribed on Ms. Johnson’s gravestone in 2007 at the Nome City Cemetery, along with an etching of a Cool Whip dismiss. (She collected dozens of them.)

The recipe words for shelf-stable ingredients, like quick oats and Swiss Miss hot chocolate mix, that are relatively easy to find in a site where more perishable foods often are not.

Even the man who plowed the snow from Ms. Johnson’s run yard did an “extra good job because he got those cookies,” her daughter said.

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