Mexican cuisine is packed with delicious traditional recipes like the famous tamales; that little bundle made with corn and filled with various ingredients, wrapped in a banana leaf or corn husk, ...

and homemade corn masa — tamales represent a true Mesoamerican culinary tradition. Often, corn husks are the preferred vessel ...

The history of tamales is almost as old as the history of Mexico and these lovingly-wrapped packages of goodness are part of ...

“It’s fitting that tamales often come wrapped like presents because what’s inside when you peel back the corn husk or banana leaf is truly a gift,” says Mexico City native Roberto ...

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The bundles of joy are then wrapped in a corn husk, steamed and served piping hot at $1.20 a pop. And maybe it's a good thing Fannie never got around to writing the book on green corn tamales ...