: cornmeal dough rolled with ground meat or beans seasoned usually with chili, wrapped usually in corn husks, and steamed
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New Arizona laws support tamales and backyard chickens.
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Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2024
Look out for the mobile food carts, which pop up daily in the lobby and by the pool, serving fresh tacos and tamales.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2024
My favorite taco lady is this woman who sells tacos, tamales and taquitos from the back of her white van in the grocery store parking lot.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 11 Sep. 2024
Tacos & Cantina serves tasty Mexican street food and Latin American bites from blue corn tacos to crab meat puff sandwiches, Iberian gourmet burgers, authentic beef empanadas, and tamales paired with reposado tequila, tobala mezcal, the ‘king of mezcals’ and bottomless jugs of Spanish sangria.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
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Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2024
Look out for the mobile food carts, which pop up daily in the lobby and by the pool, serving fresh tacos and tamales.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2024
My favorite taco lady is this woman who sells tacos, tamales and taquitos from the back of her white van in the grocery store parking lot.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 11 Sep. 2024
Tacos & Cantina serves tasty Mexican street food and Latin American bites from blue corn tacos to crab meat puff sandwiches, Iberian gourmet burgers, authentic beef empanadas, and tamales paired with reposado tequila, tobala mezcal, the ‘king of mezcals’ and bottomless jugs of Spanish sangria.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
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tamale
noun
ta·ma·le
tə-ˈmäl-ē 
: cornmeal dough rolled with ground meat or beans seasoned usually with chili, wrapped in corn husks, and steamed
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