Some say you should avoid talking about politics with family around the holidays. Those people have never been around a group of Latinos debating whether the singular word for tamales is "tamal" or ...

It’s called the chepil tamal, made with a key ingredient in Oaxacan cooking, the chepil, an herb with tiny leaves that comes from a legume that can grow more than six feet tall. It has a taste that ...

The tamal-making magic continues at La Costa Mexican Food! Despite rising costs, this family business keeps tradition alive with grandma's recipe. TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — With Christmas around the ...

One of the most common dishes in Latin American gastronomy is a dough filled with various ingredients and wrapped in leaves, usually banana or plantain leaves. But what you call that dish depends on ...

There are dozens of dishes called ‘tamales’ with nothing in common except that they are folded in a wrapping, usually corn husks or banana leaves, before cooking. This particular formula, in which ...

Reporting from Bogotá — Tamales in Los Angeles are typically of the Mexican variety, and a single one doesn’t go very far. Best to order two, possibly three, for a full meal. In Colombia, you could ...

About once a year or so I like to check in with Cosme, the modern Mexican spot in Flatiron by Daniela Soto-Innes and Enrique Olvera. The menu changes often, which makes things exciting for folks like ...

Paola is a cooking writer and avid cook who wrote her very first recipe for a key lime cookie pie at age six. She is a proud Pata Salada— that’s Mexican coastal surf speak for a native of Puerto ...

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TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The 18th annual Tucson Tamal & Heritage Festival is Saturday, Dec. 2, at AVA Amphitheater from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The festival, which is free and open to the public, celebrates ...