Steve Lopez takes a tamale tour of Los Angeles. The hallowed holiday tradition can leave a person filled with Christmas joy.
It’s Los Angeles, after all, and for many folks, tamales are part of the Christmas tradition. I figured that in the interest of public service, someone had to step up and do the difficult work of sampling some of the best. So I called an expert to see if she would assist me, and Sandi Romero of Mama’s Hot Tamales Cafe, across from MacArthur Park, was happy to oblige.
Uhh… we definitely need to do this…
Photo: Sandi Romero, a longtime community activist, opened Mama’s Hot Tamales Cafe as a nonprofit training center for food cart vendors. Credit: Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times
yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmm
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
