Degustación de pan y chocolate tradicional on October 31, 2017
Samples of local sweet egg bread and chocolate are offered at this event. Bread is purchased for family ofrendas to feed the difuntos (departed souls).
Pan de Yema and Pan de Muerto
Pan de Yema, Yema is Spanish for egg yolk. Pan de Yema is bread that does not have the marzipan head, and the living can eat it. If it has the head, it is Pan de Muerto and both the living and the dead can eat it.
Using bread as an offering for the souls is a Spanish tradition, the Spaniards used to take bread and wine to the cemeteries or churches on All Souls Day as an offering for their dead family members to let them know they remembered them and to ask them for their protection.*
*www.mexican-folk-art-guide.com
Pan de Muertos with a cabecita (painted head made from marzipan), and decorated with seeds, sugar and colored icing The panaderías (bakeries) from the city of Oaxaca display their creative variations of this traditional egg bread at the inaugural event of the urban celebration of Día de Muertos.
