Follow Mexico City's Holiday Traditions, From Flowers to Sweet Bread, at These Markets

The holiday season in Mexico City (CDMX) starts in rivers of orange and flows into a sea of red and green. The already ...
Vogue

How Marigolds Became the Ceremonial Day of the Dead Flower in Mexico

I will never forget visiting my grandmother’s hometown of Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, at the beginning of November last year. For a brief three-day span, the streets, entryways, and old colonial buildings ...
Chicago Tribune

This orange flower cloaks Mexico during Day of the Dead. Climate change is putting it at risk.

MEXICO CITY — Lucia Ortíz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico. Here, ...