Share What is Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)? Day of the Dead is the holiday that most reflects the culture of Mexico.  In the pre-Hispanic Mexican culture, life/death is viewed as a single reality, and all of life is engaged in the perpetual process of creation and destruction.  Like people everywhere, Mexicans [...]

Share The tradition of Día de los Muertos is that on November 2nd, the souls of the deceased can visit their beloved families in this world. The lights of candles and petals of zempoaxochitil (marigolds) guide each soul to its own altar and house so they can celebrate and consume what has been prepared for [...]

Share Día de los Muertos is the holiday that most reflects the culture of Mexico. It is appealing to some foreigners and appalling to others. In the pre-Hispanic Mexican culture, engaged in the perpetual process of creation and destruction. Like people everywhere, Mexicans fear death, but we have a special relationship with it: we mock [...]

For two weeks, a cluster of mom-and-pop vendors in the Plaza Civica in San Miguel de Allende, a few blocks from our house, have been selling human skulls, fruit, bones, plates of food like tamales and enchiladas and chicken molé, and skeletons in coffins—all in pastel colors and made of sugar, and all no larger than the palm of your hand.