I have read that one can make tamales using canola oil instead of lard or Crisco, so I bravely tried it. They tasted okay, but didn't h...

We went to the Tucson Tamale Festival today and bought two and a half dozen tamales from various booths, all family operations. The best pa...

This year I used my regular pork filling recipe , though I see now I forgot to use onion. It's missing that flavor base, for sure. For t...

I've used this filling for the last two years for holiday tamales. It's an amalgamation of various tomatillo salsa recipes and some ...

This reprint of an older Slate article is right in one way: because there's no single Christmas meal tradition in this country, one nev...

I was bored with the turkey idea after Thanksgiving this year. Often we have had turkey at both holidays, but this time I couldn’t get exci...