For many people in both the U.S. and Mexico, tamales are a deeply cherished and traditional food eaten throughout the year, ...

Beyond being a traditional Mexican dish, tamales represent a cultural emblem full of history, unity and tradition.

Unlike many foodstuffs, the Mexican tamale resists modernization. The process — making a braised filling, mixing a dough, soaking cornhusks, assembling individual dumplings, wrapping each package, ...

In Mexico and Central America, and for many Mexican American families, Christmastime means tamale time. From the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Dec. 12 through Three Kings’ Day on Jan. 6, tamales ...

MEXICO CITY -- McDonald's subsidiary in Mexico is apologizing for a Facebook post that was seen as trashing tamales, Mexico's corn-dough treat. A statement posted Tuesday on the McDonald's Mexico ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY – McDonald's subsidiary in Mexico is apologizing for a Facebook post that was seen as trashing tamales, Mexico's corn-dough treat. A statement posted Tuesday on the McDonald's Mexico ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents seized hundreds of tamales that were illegally smuggled into the country on a flight from Mexico. The tamales, a popular Mexican and Central American ...

Apparently there are illegal tamales. A passenger at Los Angeles International Airport learned that the hard way earlier this month when he tried to bring pork tamales into the U.S. from Mexico. The ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — McDonald’s subsidiary in Mexico is apologizing for a Facebook post that was seen as trashing tamales, Mexico’s corn-dough treat. A statement posted Tuesday on the McDonald’s Mexico ...