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A Week of Traditional Mexican Dinner Recipes from Mely Martínez
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Frisco cookbook author Mely Martínez shares her favorite holiday recipe: Tamales de Puerco
It’s just not the holidays without tamales.
Mely Martinez shows off her homemade tamales at her home in Frisco(Jason Janik / Special Contributor)
When Mely Martínez first moved to the U.S. in 1991, she was struck by the way the food of her native Mexico was represented in restaurants. It didn’t taste or look like the food she spent her whole life cooking and eating. Enchiladas encased in electric yellow cheese? She was far from home.
She also began to realize that many of the children of Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. were unfamiliar with traditional recipes found in the home kitchens across Mexico. She thought of her son and hoped that he and those like him would one day be able to carry on these food traditions, so the former school teacher went back into educator mode.