This particular recipe, adapted from what my mother and I remember of my tatarabuela’s (great-grandmother) tamales, is rather specifically for tamales as they are commonly made in Nogales, Sonora. It ...

So are you guys ready to go in the kitchen? Try some tamales ready? Yolanda's Tamales is in *** very interesting location. If you were driving back, you probably wouldn't be able to spot it, but you ...

“These are likely the last tamales I will ever make,” my aunt and godmother Vicky says as she hands me bags filled with four varieties. This may not be a heartfelt prediction: In fact, Tia Vicky has ...

Making tamales at Christmas time is a long running tradition for many Mexican American families and students at Oxnard High School have figured out a way to make them, without using so much water. It ...

Every December, I look forward to la tamalada, a tamal-making party thrown by a friend whose abuela showed her the ropes as a child. My friend makes masa from scratch with real lard, and the guests ...

When Pauline Alvarado thinks about the Christmases of her childhood, she remembers the whole family packed in the kitchen making tamales. She remembers her little hands kneading masa dough, wiping ...