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Isla Guapa · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:09 am Post subject: Pan de Muertos

I just celebrated Mexican Independence Day by enjoying some of the best chiles en nogada to be found in Mexico City! Now a friend and I ar We're looking for the best pan de muertos pesos can buy. Does anyone have a favorite bakery they can recommend? We're prepared to travel as far as Xochimilco, or anywhere else you can get to easily on public transportation.

�Mil gracias!

notamiss · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 2:05 pm Post subject:

In descending order, El Globo, Sanborns, even the supermarkets. My Mexican family usually gets it at the supermarkets and pronounces the bread very good.

Isla Guapa · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:46 pm Post subject:

notamiss · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:44 pm Post subject:

I didn�t misunderstand you, it�s just that the supermarket and chain store pan de muertos are very, very good. I�ve had some that were prepared by people who make their own and sell them, and I didn�t find them perceptibly better. Perhaps if you found some made by a gourmet chef�

Isla Guapa · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:13 pm Post subject:

MotherF · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:36 pm Post subject:

Surely there will be some artesanal pan in the local markets? Here we have a special tianguis de muertos where stalls go up selling everything you will need for your alter. Flowers, candles, mole, chocolate, copal, sugar skulls, tissue paper cutouts, and mountains of pan. There are about 10 different types on offer. There must be something like that in Mexico City. Maybe in a part of the city where there are a lot of Oaxacans. If I see my husband's aunt, who lives in Los Reyes, Estado de Mexico, between now and then I will ask her. She comes every few months.

That tianguis is a very very frangrant place as you might imagine--just walking through it is one of my favorite things to do each year. It might even be worth a visit to Oaxaca...

BadBeagleBad · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:18 am Post subject:

Ther are small neighborhood bakeries all over that make small batches of bread so that it is like home made, and they will blow them all - El Globo, La Esperanza, you name it - out of the water. There is one by my house, they make maybe 20 or 25 different varieties every day, and while they have some constants, they have some variants. And, they make the best Rosca I have ever had too. I bet if you asked around in you neighborhood there is one, probably hidden away around the corner, or somewhere not terribly obvious.

Isla Guapa · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 5:27 am Post subject:

BadBeagleBad · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:33 pm Post subject:

It's a long haul, but if you want to come I will tell you how to get here. I am trying to think of an area nearer you that might have such a thing. I will ask around and get back to you.

Isla Guapa · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:05 pm Post subject:

MotherF · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 1:10 am Post subject:

Isla Guapa · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:25 am Post subject:

Thanks, MotherF. I've been too busy lately cranking out some copy-editing projects on my old cranky computer to have time to check out D�a de Muertos events. Maybe I'll take a break tomorrow and check this out.