Pan de Muertos (Day of the Dead Bread) is a rich, sweet bread shaped into medium rounds and decorated with "bone" dough ropes. Its sweet, subtle anise flavor is enhanced with an orange glaze and ...

Bread to honor the dead and to be enjoyed by the living: Gusto Bread makes pan de muerto every fall for Día de Muertos. (Shelby Moore / Los Angeles Times) On an early fall morning, Gusto Bread ...

La Mexicana bakery in Nashua has been baking nonstop this month. Owner Socorro Gonzalez is making batches and batches of pan de muerto, a popular offering for family ofrendas, or altars. “It has to be ...

Mexico City’s Panadería Rosetta may be widely known for its acclaimed rol de guayaba, or guava pastry, but when October hits, it’s all about the pan de muerto, or bread of the dead, which is prepared ...

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The world around her is moving fast, but Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack knows how to slow down. She uses food as a conduit to connection. Two days each year, she whips up her favorites for one person in ...

You’ve landed on the right article because I have been living in Mexico since 2018, and I will tell you all about the best Day of the Dead foods and drinks I’ve enjoyed while traveling the country.

While Halloween celebrates everything dark, spooky and scary, the Mexican tradition of Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, puts a different spin on the things that go bump in the night. Dia de los ...

Día de los Muertos, the Mexican holiday that reunites the souls of the dead with the living, is traditionally marked with pan de muerto, a pan dulce. The “bread of the dead,” often decorated with ...

The first bread Bryan Ford ever made was for his father. It was a cinnamon raisin loaf. It was both burnt and underbaked. Of course, his father loved it and ate the whole thing. On Oct. 31, 2022, Ford ...

On an early fall morning, Gusto Bread owner-baker Arturo Enciso ties on his yellow apron, puts Coltrane on the record player and makes himself an espresso. The October fog that rolls through the 4th ...