The Latin American tradition of the Day of the Dead, as I understand it, combines local indigenous traditions meshed with Catholicism and has some interesting food traditions we will explore in the next couple of weeks. I will link past topics in the second post.
Here is what Nancy offers and an introduction to the tradition that the food we will discuss is based on :
In San Diego a local blogger posted about the bones bread http://mmm-yoso.typepad.com/mmmyoso/2013/10/dia-de-los-muer