TO EAT OR TO BE EATEN Part 2. One pumpkin two recipes: calabaza en tacha & tamales de calabaza dulce con frijoles.

Día de Muertos Food.

(Cont.)

At the beginning of this writing (read the previous post here if you haven’t), I said that there were two fundamental motivations to devour other humans. On the one hand, the Mexica and other ancient cultures practiced anthropophagic rituals because they believed it regenerated life and kept the universe moving; on the other, it is this self-cent…