Jaime Vargas, chef from Durango, He says that the bread of the dead could be thought of as a pre-Columbian tradition, but it is not, although gastronomically it is important in the country.
He explained that It is very difficult to find traces of this type of bread before the conquest.
For the chef, gastronomy has a close relationship with history and in the case of the bread of the deadThe oldest records that have been given date back to the 18th century. But they do not exist in the traces of pre-Columbian peoples.
Vargas was clear in mentioning that in the past The Day of the Dead had less to do with the celebrations seen in the movies national and international, where a produced scene of the celebration is shown and it is relatively new, that is why One gets the feeling that the tradition of bread of the dead is ancestral, when it is induced.
The bread of the dead means the skull and crossbonesIt is made with two flavors, both orange and orange blossom, as well as butter, which gives it its very particular flavor.
But In southern states there are other combinations, like the bread of souls that is shaped like people or mermaids for the water spirits, in addition to the little faces in Oaxaca.
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