An Oakland grave from 1962 says: “Here lies Joseph A. Sheridan, the master chef from Shannon, Ireland, who created for the world the treasure known as Irish coffee.”

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The story goes that Sheridan was the chef at the Foynes Airport in the 1940s, and at one point, to warm up passengers stranded at the airport during inclement weather, mixed up a combination of coffee, sugar, Irish whiskey and whipped cream.

Word of the delicious beverage made its way to travel writer Stanton Delaplane, then the Buena Vista Cafe, where owner Jack Koeppler recruited Sheridan to help him perfect the recipe for the San Francisco cafe, according to archivist Rosie Grant, the author behind the new cookbook, “To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes” (Harvest, $26). She got permission from th

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