Kelsey Osgood

  • This Guy Wants to Open a Permanent “Death Cafe” for People to Talk About Dying

    Jon Underwood has been hosting death cafes in the basement of his home since 2011, but now he wants to run one full-time.

  • Drinking the Black Death in Iceland

    Iceland's spirit, Brennivín, aka the "Black Death" is a beverage that has never been exported out of the country. One man, however, has found a way to import it into the US so that Americans can sip on the schnapps that tastes more like licorice than...

  • Cooking with Sylvia Plath Was Exhausting

    I left the butcher store with a $93 leg of lamb that weighed in at 7.1 pounds—the exact weight of my son at birth!—and set home to cook my Plath-inspired dinner so I could blog about it. After devouring the meal, the only remnants of the night included...

  • Drinking the Black Death

    Iceland's spirit, Brennivín, aka the "Black Death," is a beverage that has never been exported out of the country. One man, however, has found a way to import it into the US so that Americans can sip on the schnapps that tastes more like licorice than...