It’s tamale time. This Mexican comfort food has a long history and is an essential ... They are steamed in a corn husk or banana leaf, making for the ultimate hand-held snack or meal.

The Tex-Mexplainer series explores the ingredients, techniques, history, and culture of ... Served on a rectangular segment of banana leaf, the tamale, made with freshly nixtamalized masa, is ...

An icon in its native land, the Guatemalan tamale is wrapped in a striking green banana leaf that gives way to ... We have the history and the recipes." In December 2022, Moraga and a panel ...

They laugh, they cry.” Cynthia carefully folds a banana leaf over the masa and stacks the tamales in the steamer pot. “It’s a hell of a process,” Cynthia says. “It’s intimidating with ...

It wasn’t until I moved to New York City for college that I realized how much I took the tamales of my childhood ... like corn husks, banana leaves, or a peppery plant called hoja santa; filled ...

At its essence, a tamale consists of masa (a type of starchy corn dough) that's been wrapped in leaves, then steamed or boiled. Some come bundled in corn husks, others in plantain, banana or ...