Dia De Los Muertos and NESCAFÉ Café de Olla
In my world making Cafe de Olla is a serious process. If you’re having family and friends over and want to clean up the house, make food, dress up to look nice, decorate your entertaining space, select good music and make your guests feel comfortable…. making cafe de olla is one more daunting task. I’m tired just thinking about it. As you all may or may not know, Cafe de Olla is the finishing touch especially when honoring Dia de Los Muertos / Day of the Dead (Nov.2nd). Nestle just took one less worry off our hands with their new instant Cafe de Olla.
I was invited to the Nestle Headquarters a few weeks ago to speak with experts on papel picado, Dia de Los Muertos history and to learn to paint the perfect calaca face. I have taken part in Dia de Los Muertos year after year and celebrate it at home and make it a point to visit the annual Hollywood Forever Cemetery fiesta. Click here to see my photo diary from last year’s Dia de Los Muertos celebration.