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Janet Wilder wrote:
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> On 11/1/2010 8:33 PM, Arri London wrote:
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> >
> > Janet Wilder wrote:
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> >> On 10/30/2010 11:35 AM, koko wrote:
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> >>> I made some Pan de Muerto.
> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/koko181/5123836447/
> >>>
> >>> It is a dense sweet bread that is typically made for the Day of the
> >>> Dead celebrations Nov 2nd.
> >>
> >> I thought that was November 1. It's the Mexican celebration of All
> >> Saint's Day, isn't it?
> >>
> >>

> > 1 Nov is All Saints Day (Todos los Santos), 2 Nov is All Souls Day (and
> > Dia de los Muertes). Celebrated with the bread and sugar skulls.
> >
> > I make the bread
> > (http://notecook.com/bread/pan-de-muerte-bread-of-death, for another
> > recipe) and have made salt dough skulls, rather than sugar skulls

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> I guess I should know better living here in almost Mexico.
>


Just depends on who your neighbours are And I like a celebration,
particularly if it's colourful and involves food :q