Tamale

...writer who's kicking off the University of Texas' Foodways of Mexico speaker series this week with a talk on tamale history. While tamales aren't associated with winter holidays south of the border, Alarcon says "I'm pretty sure in...

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...gathering because I was too busy and impatient to make it the right way. "You made this? " "Ummm, ya. " Well, technically I did. Tamales. Another all-day affair. Along with my sister and dad, we shuck and grind corn to make them. We...

In this article: Menudo, Tamales, Fruit, and Pizza

...to make from her mother while growing up in Sonora. The Zunigas add lard to the masa for their green corn tamales. In their chicken tamales they add tomato salsa. Their red chile and beef tamales are traditional. For many families like...

In this article: Desert View High School, Catalina Magnet High School, Sunnyside High School, and University of Arizona

...sold at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and at several Bay Area grocers. So I decided to resurrect my tamale stuffing recipe using these tamales. As part of my old-new experiment on the recipe, I used the tamale stuffing inside of a...

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...and she's going to reveal all sorts of cool tamale trivia, like, well, the ancient Maya and Aztecs had no pork tamales! No pork tamales for them! Pigs did not get to the New World until the Spanish lugged them over around 1520. So the Aztecs...

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...wanted to leave the apartment clean to keep the manager happy," Villa said. On Thursday morning, she went over and offered him some tamales she'd made. He declined, saying he didn't eat meat. But when she explained that they were sweet...

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...his furniture and his shirts, for Villa's husband. He even paid her $60 to accept them. The morning of the shooting, Villa offered Hasan tamales she had made. He declined, saying he did not eat meat. When she told him these were sweet...

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...and the Dados has gone from a potential destination to that place across from the High Line that offers free margaritas and serves corny tamales. Falling another rung down the culinary ladder, Los Dados has installed a 103" TV and flat...

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...we had joong as much as we had tamales," Woodbury said. "It's kind of interesting that we called joong 'Chinese tamales,' and didn't call tamales 'Mexican joong.' " One pound of masa yields a dozen tamales, and Wong Fillmore is accustomed to...

In this article: Christmas Eve, Chicken, Chinese New Year, and Watsonville

...Vigil of the Little Angels," "Vigil at the Cemetery" and "Altars of Life." The exhibited photographs included one of eight women preparing tamales in Oaxaca, a girl looking at a display of sugar skulls in the Mexican state of Michoacan and a...

In this article: Oaxaca, Martin Luther, Michoacan, and Sugar