Chef Carmen Ramírez, popularly known in the Mexican state of Guerrero as Carmelita Ramírez, ensures that food has memory, and that the flavors and smells remind us of people.
The owner of Carmelita's Café explains that food is a tradition that is transmitted from generation to generation, and that through gastronomy those who are no longer in this world are remembered.
Carmelita Ramírez prepares traditional dishes for the Day of the Dead festivities, such as the fried pork in guajillo chili and pumpkin sweetened with piloncillo.