Atole

Atole is hot and thick, made of a corn gruel, sweetened with piloncillo (dark, unrefined cane sugar that still retains a lot of the molasses content) and flavored with cinnamon and/or vanilla, chocolate or fruit.

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Day of the Dead

Mexico’s Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos constitutes an important recognition and remembrance by the Mexican people of their recently and no-so-recently departed loved ones.

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