SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Pan de muerto is a seasonal bread baked during Día de los Muertos festivities throughout Mexico and in other countries around Latin America.
Many buy it from bakeries and stores and hand out the bread as a gift to loved ones, coworkers or friends.
The bread can be made in different colors and can also be used to decorate altars in honor of dead relatives.
A culinary school in Tijuana, has decided to use 43,000 pieces to create the largest “mosaic” of Day of Dead bread in the world.
Viviana Parra, one of the instructors at the school, said 600 students have been preparing the dough since Tuesday to make the bread fragments.
It will be set up on Saturday at the city’s Cultural Arts Center and will resemble a catrina, a skeletal woman dressed in elegant attire.
The display is expected to be 400 square meters, or about 1,300 square feet in diameter.
“It’s a project being created for the community on this festive holiday showing off our culture and cuisine,” said Parra.
She also said people who come to see the display will be given samples and leftover pieces will be donated to 40 shelters, food banks and others in need.
“We have the support from Tijuana Without Hunger Foundation to distribute the bread, we don’t want to waste any of it, we want people to enjoy it.”
Parra says it will take three days to bake the 43,000 pieces for the display.
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