Before Thanksgiving, on Nov. 1, we had a Dia de los Muertos dinner party. It is one of my favorite holidays. I appreciate the open perspective on death and so much of the arts & crafts surrounding the event are so beautiful! There is a great little store in the Mission that sells all the traditional goodies from sugar skulls to paper marigolds, papel picado, etc., that I really have to decide on a budget before I go in, or it's easy to get carried away!
A classmate from Brazil once told me a story about him not discovering he had a brother until he and his mother met his father's mistress at his father's grave one Dia de los Muertos. Looking at the little boy with her was apparently like looking in a mirror!
We made posole stew and shrimp empanadas from the Pasqual's cookbook (a Santa Fe restaurant), and managed to cram 6 guests into our little place.
6 comments:
meet in mexico city for dia de los meurtos next year? i love the holiday, too, and always remember it this time of year when i get to pull out the oaxacan tin ornaments (think i have the same skeleton as yours in the pic!). the mexican fascination with death fascinates me - i remember being at the mummy museum in guanajato, and all these mexican tourists kept asking me to take pictures of them next to these pretty disgusting looking mummies. couples smiling by mummies - not something i'd hang on the mantel! :)
p.s. your empanadas look amazing! i just had lunch, but now i'm hungry again!
i wish i were in attendance at your dia de los muertos dinner! you put much love into all of the details.
did you see my dad's halloween pics on flickr? he dressed up as a dia de los muertos character. (and holly hennesey (formerly askew) dressed up as dad.)
m belle, send me those pics!
Here's a link to the H'ween pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robert_trudeau/2974249843/in/set-72157608389164881/
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