A Cookbook for Dining With the Dead

Image caption: The cookbook also includes instructions on decorating your own sugar skulls. Don’t eat these: You’ll chip a tooth. Image courtesy Mariana Nuño-Ruiz McEnroe & Ian McEnroe. Article by Sam O’Brien. Atlas Obscura: Gastro Obscura – October 28, 2022.

Learn to make amaranth skulls, “buried” tamales, and other regional Día de los Muertos recipes.

Ghosts eat well on the Day of the Dead. In cemeteries across Mexico, carefully placed baskets of pan de muerto and tamales sit among graves, while altars, or ofrendas, honoring the deceased are adorned with hot chocolate, pozole, and chicken legs coated in […]

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