5 Mexican-Americans on the Tamale-Making Party That Defines the Holidays

In Houston, Texas—what with an absence of snow, or any semblance of truly cold weather—you learn to look for other harbingers of the holiday season. Maybe it’s the crystalline wreaths that stud the palm trees in Highland Village. Or the sudden and totalizing takeover of Sunny 99.1 by Christmas tunes. For some it’s the poinsettias sold with abandon at every flower shop along Westheimer or the soft clink of a red bell outside an H-E-B.
For me? It’s always been tamales.
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