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    What the 'tamale poll' says about coronavirus, Christmas and large gatherings

    LOS ANGELES – It looked like business as usual on the assembly line. Four men behind the counter of Tamales Liliana's in Boyle Heights were scooping up masa with their hands and smearing it on opened corn husks. Six women then filled them with slits of green chile and cheese before folding and wrapping them in baking paper. Nearby, Juan Manuel Santoyo took stock of the ritual. "I spend a good ...
    by Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times Dec 16, 2020 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES – It looked like business as usual on the assembly line.

    Four men behind the counter of Tamales Liliana's in Boyle Heights were scooping up masa with their hands and smearing it on opened corn husks. Six women then filled them with slits of green chile and cheese before folding and wrapping them in baking paper. Nearby, Juan Manuel Santoyo took stock of the ritual.

    "I spend a good amount of time making tamales to sell during the week of Christmas," the 67-year-old restaurant owner said. "It's what we rely on to get us through the year."

    For many Mexican and Central American families, a Christmas without tamales feels like culinary heresy. The last month of the year is filled with Latino holiday traditions and festivities such as tamaladas (tamale-making parties), the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Las Posadas, a reenactment of Mary and

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