A Few Great Bakeries

Bonus Scene: Mama Ines Mexican Bakery

The Mexican Day of the Dead is on November 2, and bakeries in Mexico make special sweet breads and colorfully decorated sugar skulls that people place on altars to honor their deceased love ones. In Lafayette, Indiana, at Mama Ines Bakery, Rosa Montoya shows us a “mortito” or little dead man, and some of the skulls that she sells from mid-October through early November.

Bonus Scene: Mama Ines Mexican Bakery

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    Bakeries are full of wonderful things: smells, sweet possibilities, friendly bakers who sometimes wait on you. A lot of work has usually gone into the sometimes soft, crunchy, salty, icing-covered products for sale, and the purchases you make often result in satisfaction and happiness. We celebrate all this oven-baked artistry in this hour-long documentary.

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