On Fri, 3 May 2013 14:58:24 -0700, gtr > wrote:
>On 2013-05-03 21:09:38 +0000, Janet Bostwick said:
>
>> Switching gears a little bit, it was my understanding/remembrance that
>> there is a separate tamale tradition in the American Southeast. I
>> just don't recall who the immigrants were and when that provided the
>> tamales. Anybody?
>
>There are many different traditions. The tamales I got in North vs.
>South Texas and in Southern California all have signifiant differences.
>And then the ones that show up on our door around Christmas have even
>more distinctions.
>
>If you google it, I bet you'll find all kinds of different stuff. Some
>of it will suffer the worst of "sniff sniff" gauche nuances that make
>them GHASTLY unauthentic. But most of them taste pretty great when well
>done.
>
>And the various parts of central American have significat distinctions as well.
>
>For future reference, this place has the best tamales on the planet,
>though they might not be close to you:
>
> Sariņana's Tamale Factory: http://tinyurl.com/d8xzfy8
>
>Folks blabber about their other stuff (tacos, menudo), but 90% of their
>business is tamale's sold to the local folk that don't have computers.
>Santa Ana is 80% Hispanic, most of them from Jalisco, Guerrero, Sinaloa
>and Baja.
No, we are nowhere close.
( thanks for the info.
Janet US