His recipe? Part family tradition, part art form – and a lot of love. "Making tamales is an art. The corn husk will be your canvas, and your masa is your paint, and your spatula is your brush ...

where she learned the culinary art of tamale-making from her mother. "My tamales are simple and easy," When Bertha Paredes gathers with her family on Christmas Eve, the celebration will honor ...

Then, of course, there’s the art of the folding ... But more than just for stocking our freezers, making tamales as a family allows us to communicate things to each other — about respect ...

Hawthorne believes she can make tamales "a million different ways." Tamales are her art, she says ... making skills were handed down through her family from generation to generation, beginning ...

For the Browns in Collin County, it's tamales. Wanda Brown grew up in South Texas where it wasn't Christmas until her family ...

“Now, I like to make tamales because it culturally unites my chosen family here. We all have our tamale recipe and merge it and make one.” As the group smeared the masa on the corn ...

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 ...