How to pronounce“tamales”in English

I think that tamales are with corn, like the corn leaf that they're wrapped, where pasteles en hoja is with a plantain leaf.

So I chose tamales because I love a good project and getting into it and having fun with it.

Today I made tamales.

People call them tamales, but they're wrapped in bamboo leaves and stuff.

But the tamales was always a good sign that we were doing good.

They might just get tamales, and that's OK.

She actually makes tamales.

We were so poor that-- tamales, right?

and making over $3,000 tamales on a weekly basis.

And here is a woman selling tamales by the side of the street.

She had a show on the Food Network called Two Hot Tamales, which was on a long time ago.

the end of the day and just start selling tamales.

And she was only-- I think she was only making about 100 tamales per week when she started with us.

And I can do it through women like this who are selling these humongous tamales is for $1 apiece.

Are you gonna hold it against Kennedy and Bayless and the Two Hot Tamales?

At Mitchell, our students brought the staff homemade tamales.

There's a tortilla factory in Bushwick-- no, Nick's Tamales in Queens, is in Corona.

So you would eat ice cream, and it tasted like tamales, because the tamales that were in there from Christmas,

That’s been the course of Mexican food in this country for over 125 years starting with tamales, going with what we know now as just chili in a can, it used to be called Chili

You take away cheese and chicken and beef and things that just didn't exist, but you still have nixtamal and tamales and masa and tortillas

For those that don't know what Pasteles en hoja are, it's similar to tamales from Mexico.

So I have cooking-- and my kitchen smells amazing because I just made some Mexican tamales with barbacoa beef.

And as much as I love putting my own spin on things, and that's really my thing, the first time I made tamales,

We might not have gotten the Air Jordans or the beautiful things that we could have dreamed of, but we had tamales.

I mean, just to kind of give you an indication of where she was at at the time, she would buy supplies to make her tamales on a weekly basis.

And then you're eating ice cream, and you're like, this tastes like tamales.

of people are there on the street just trying to make an extra buck, you know, selling tamales, things like that.

here in Southern Califor--, or just here in Santa Monica actually, the Two Hot Tamales.

So next time and then from there you can mix up the corn and make masa and from masa, of course, you get tortillas and tamales.

Michael Brown: Yeah and I really regret it, guys like, chefs like Diana Kennedy and Rick Bayless, and, you know, Two Hot Tamales

And same thing, you know, with the other great ambassadors, Diana Kennedy who also believes in this authenticity thing, the Two Hot Tamales Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, you know,

Or like recently, I think we just served tamales last night.