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Stories from the F&W Farmstead Mark Wieser & Case Fischer, on December 24, 2025

Tamales are a big part of Christmas

One Saturday morning in the late 1950s, I walked into my best friend’s house and found his parents busy in the kitchen making tamales. It was clearly a wellplanned production. I had never imagined anyone making their own tamales.

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ELECTIONS

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