And as the holiday season looms, the demand for both prepared and Nixtamal masa increases. When ordering masa, every order is bagged fresh and pulled directly from their tamale production line.

Trader Joe's prepared tamales were the absolute opposite of everything we outlined a tamale should be. The thin layer of masa was brittle, the promised spice from the green chilis got lost in the ...

I had never known a Christmas without a pile of corn husk-wrapped tamales waiting next to a honey ham and the half dozen other sides my mom and aunts had prepared for us, the corn masa hot and ...