THE KITCHEN IS CLOSED FOR 2004....

December is a time for giving and receiving...stays. All three diners slated for this month have cheated the hangman. That means the final tally for 2004 is 59 diners.

The deadmaneating.com elves are busy at work compiling the 2004 Death Row Dining guide containing all the last meals and last words of the past year, along with the always interesting Food Category breakdown (it is neck-and-neck between fried chicken and burgers, but Coke is king...again). This invaluable guide will be available either late Monday or early Tuesday and is the perfect stocking stuffer.

In the remaining weeks of the year we will attempt to get catch up on all the last meals our great readers have sent in and post a few articles of note that have been sitting in our folder for a while.

There you go....