Every once in a while, I find myself at a restaurant where I’m the only person who speaks English. It usually isn’t much trouble, because I can point at things on the menu, cross my fingers and hope ...

Food is memory at every level, from emotional to visceral, and my early memories of spending Christmas in North America as a young immigrant were all about a desire to assimilate. Having spent many ...

Stacy Mérida watches as her aunt, Nivia Mérida, fills two banana leaves with masa dough, chicken and mole, a sauce common in Guatemalan tamales. The 2-year-old rests her chin on the kitchen table with ...

The tradition of making tamales spans Mesoamerican cultures, from the Borderland to Mexico and Central America. Every culture has its own methods, every family its own recipes. In the video, Maria de ...

Panamanian tamales stuffed with chicken and wrapped in bijao leaves — one of hundreds of interpretations of the dish found throughout Latin America. This Christmas Eve, many Latinos will celebrate the ...

It's Christmas Eve, and many Latinos will celebrate the holiday tonight by unwrapping a delicious little present: tamales. At its essence, a tamale consists of masa (a type of starchy corn dough) that ...

When Yury Aguilar and her husband Carlos Pool first started selling tamales from the trunk of their car back in 2015, it was hard for them to even imagine what it would be like to open an actual ...

PL is having so much fun jiggling around the Guatemalan tamales, while struggling to see who has the best tamales, Mexico or Guatemala? #tamales #mexico #guatemala #latinostry #tastetest #latin ...

This Christmas Eve, many Latinos will celebrate the holiday by unwrapping delicious little presents: tamales. At its essence, a tamale consists of masa (dough made from corn or another starch) that's ...