It’s the holiday season and it’s starting to smell like tamales. The delicious Latin American dish has become a staple during the holidays and is joyfully celebrated with festivals throughout the area ...

It’s tamale time with a trio of festivals celebrating the wildly popular dish and holiday staple in December. “This is an all immersive tamale festival,” said Sal Flores, founder of the Long Beach ...

In pre-Columbian Mexico, women invented tamales as a portable, satisfying food to feed the roaming armies of the Aztec, Mayan and Incan tribes. But this ancient form of ''take-out'' is also one of the ...

I had one food and one quest in mind on a recent trip to Mississippi: Find the trailhead of the Tamale Trail and chow down on a plate of tamales. And, as it so happened, the beginning of this famous ...