It's tamale time. This Mexican comfort food has a long history and is an essential part of every major holiday, particularly Christmas. It's also the perfect portable snack for holiday travelers. They ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 24—Meet some of the women behind the tamales that make Christmas a little more New Mexican. From Rosa Ortega, who makes ...

Tamales are the vivid recollection of our family’s unity during Christmas time. As a Latino girl growing up in the United States, I clearly remember Christmas as a time when my grandparents, aunts, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some Texans like to host a tamalada, and others like to buy ready to eat tamales. Whatever you prefer, it's that time of the year ...

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 ...

DALLAS — Christmas is a time for family traditions, and eating tamales on Christmas Eve is a Texas favorite. The tradition stems from Mexican-American households, but has expanded widely to become a ...

It wasn’t until I moved to New York City for college that I realized how much I took the tamales of my childhood holidays for granted. A born-and-raised Southern Californian with a big Mexican ...

While the city sleeps, one San Antonio family-run business is a beehive of activity working to feed hungry stomachs when they rise and shine. And with Christmas only two days away, many of those ...

SOUTH LOS ANGELES -- Tamale trouble is making Christmas less than jolly for hundreds of Southern Californians. Customers who bought their traditional Christmas tamales from Amapola markets around Los ...