"For me, it's more about the person who you're honoring and the food that reminds you of them, she said. And so in teaching my kids, it was the perfect holiday to be like, OK, this is my grandma. This is your grandma. And these were her favorite foods.' On Dia de los Muertos, Marquez-Sharpnack has been able to connect three generations of her family in a single bite of food."
"If she needed guidance, she'd call her mom to steer her back on track. But the thought of writing down the recipes made sense. Then she took it one step further: What if she stored them online so she could share them with the world? Her blog, Muy Bueno, was born. I had no idea it could turn into a career, she said. It started as a journal for a cookbook, and now it's my livelihood."
Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack uses food as a conduit to connection and honors her late grandmother, Jesusita Soza, by cooking favorite dishes on Dia de los Muertos. Jesusita lived to be 98. Two days each year Yvette prepares decorative Mexican sugar skulls, mini lemon sugar skull cakes, and pan de muerto that link three generations in a single bite. Family recipes were stored in memory, and a 2010 prompt from her daughter Maya led to transcribing them. She launched the Muy Bueno blog to share recipes online; the blog evolved from a cookbook journal into a livelihood. Complementary cookbooks collect family ofrenda recipes for the holiday.
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