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Former Covid Patient Margarita Montanez Made 800 Tamales for Health Care Workers

Virginia IsaadDecember 18, 2020December 18, 2020

by Virginia IsaadDecember 18, 2020December 18, 202003894

Margarita Montanez spent 20 days in the hospital in April battling coronavirus and now she’s giving back to those who helped heal her by making 800 tamales, KTLA reported. The San Fernando Valley resident was hooked up to a ventilator...

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Why Chicanos Eat Tamales on Christmas

Johanna FerreiraDecember 19, 2019September 3, 2020

by Johanna FerreiraDecember 19, 2019September 3, 2020016021

Every year on Christmas Eve, they were there for us. Warm, spicy, and familiar, the smell of tamales would fill our kitchen as my grandmother opened her large, aluminum tamalera. She’d spend the days prior making trips to La Michoacana...

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6 Tamales From All Over Latin America You Need To Try

V. Alexandra de F. SzoenyiDecember 7, 2018August 19, 2020

by V. Alexandra de F. SzoenyiDecember 7, 2018August 19, 2020016143

WE all love a homemade tamale, most of the time we make them during the Christmas holiday. Making them, buying them, eating way more of them than is probably allowed. We know that several countries make these delectable, packaged...

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7 #TweetYourTamales Pictures That Will Fill You Up With Latino Pride

Araceli CruzDecember 27, 2017November 18, 2020

by Araceli CruzDecember 27, 2017November 18, 202002463

#TweetYourTamales lit up Twitter this holiday weekend after The New Yorker published “The Comfort of Tamales at the End of 2017.” Writer Gustavo Arellano wrote this stellar piece of our age-old tradition of making tamales with our loved one, and how...

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Vegetarian Green Chile and Cheese Tamales

Hispanic KitchenDecember 17, 2017November 23, 2020

by Hispanic KitchenDecember 17, 2017November 23, 20200736

This article was re-published with permission from HispanicKitchen.com...

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Someone Made a Wreath of Tamales – and It’s the Perfect Christmas Decoration

Jessica MolinaNovember 28, 2017December 1, 2020

by Jessica MolinaNovember 28, 2017December 1, 20200832

When I think about my favorite Christmas decorations, they’re always the ones that tell a story – the ones that are unique to the home that they adorn. Commercially, Christmas items are mass-produced with no culture in mind. You’ve got...

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10 Latinx-Owned Tortilla Chips You Need to Try

Nicole YoungFebruary 28, 2022February 28, 2022

by Nicole YoungFebruary 28, 2022February 28, 202204236

Tortilla chips are so common that they’ve basically become a staple in all American homes. The creation of the tortilla chips is commonly credited to Rebecca Webb Carranza who reportedly invented the snack in the mid-1940s in Los Angeles. However,...

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Mayra Wendolyne Talks Living Low Carb and Age Gap Love

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonFebruary 9, 2022February 28, 2022

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonFebruary 9, 2022February 28, 202208741

In just five years, Mayra Wendolyne, has built an Instagram following of 1.6 million, she has over a million followers on TikTok and more than 500,000 people subscribe to her YouTube channel, Low Carb Love. Those numbers are massive, especially...

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10 Spanish Christmas Songs You Need to Add to Your Holiday Playlist

Nicole YoungDecember 22, 2021

by Nicole YoungDecember 22, 202103234

Between the lights and decorations, posadas, and holidays songs all over the radio, it’s hard not to get into the festive mood. One of our great joys of the holidays includes tamales, coquito, ponche, and champurrado but besides the food...

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Latinx-Inspired Items to Make Your Home Look More Festive

Nicole YoungDecember 6, 2021December 6, 2021

by Nicole YoungDecember 6, 2021December 6, 202104169

Decorating our homes for the holidays is part of the joy of the holidays. Naturally, with stores starting to sell Christmas decorations right after Halloween, it’s easy to get excited about it. But, like many of us, we want to...

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How to Veganize Your Favorite Latin Recipes for Holidays

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonNovember 23, 2021December 15, 2021

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonNovember 23, 2021December 15, 202103634

An essential part of the holidays is the FOOD and in our community we go all out and enjoy delicious home-cooked meals we don’t usually get to enjoy at any other time. If you’re Latinx and you’ve gone vegan though,...

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10 Latinx-Owned Ice Cream Shops Throughout the U.S. to Get Your Sugar Fix

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJuly 16, 2021July 16, 2021

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJuly 16, 2021July 16, 202104197

We are in the thick of summer now, and with the unrelenting heat waves seeming to come back-to-back, and all we can think of is finding the best ways to keep cool. Of course, our favorite way to cool off...