“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 ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — Tamales are a holiday staple on the dinner table for families, including the Sanchez family, who has been making the entree using the same recipe for over 25 years. The recipe ...

Maria Elena Ortiz-Torres, 40, grew up sitting at her grandma’s kitchen table each December, watching the family matriarch make masa from scratch. She learned the basics of making tamales as her ...

"My mom's mom was already here and she taught my mom and my dad how to make tamales -- we started doing tamales as a family when I was 12 years old. All the smells, all the tastes were already ...

“It's always nice to bring up a lot of memories while making tamales and remember all the good times of getting together and being with family,” Pete Martínez said. At one of these tamal ...

and the art of making tamales is a way to share our family tradition with the new generations," said Fabián Saldaña, the chef of Maize in west Houston. "I made them with my mom and abuela ...

Davison resident Antonia Kidd, 40, makes tamales for a living but finds the holiday season to be the busiest for orders and a great family time. “When I’m making tamales I have people that com ...

I’m a Detroit resident now, but when I lived close to my family in California, we tried our best every year to make time for a tamalada, a holiday tamale-making gathering and culinary ritual ...

However, Miguel Paz explained that her homemade tamales are a treat reserved for family and friends, as arthritis in her knees has made it too difficult for her to produce them for sale.