Showing posts with label Grandma Lupes Authentic Tamales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grandma Lupes Authentic Tamales. Show all posts

Monday, January 23, 2012

Grandma Lupes Authentic Tamales-Indio Tamale Festival 2011



Grandma Lupe with Aunt Vickie & Aunt Leonora

 

 Indio, CA may be most famous for hosting the Coachella Music and Arts Festival every year, but it is quickly becoming the Tamale capital of the world. Roughly 100,000 people attended this year's Indio Tamale Festival, including Blue Ribbon Hunter's Allison Fishman.  The festival was buzzing with Mexican folk dancing, a lively tamale eating competition, and of course an array of eclectic flavored tamales that one could only dream of. Strawberry tamale anyone?

(Pictured here with her daughter,Mary, my mother in law & yard sale partner ).


The real star of the festival is Tito's 80 year-old Grandmother known by everyone in town as "Grandma Lupe". Maria Guadalupe Nuñez Calsada, emigrated to the United States from Mexico along with her husband in 1954 and recalls that then many people in this country didn’t know what a tamale was and they had to be taught that to eat one you had to remove the cornshucks




If you ever make it out to Indio,CA the first weekend of December,it is a must see and taste!
 A Total Tamale Treat!


Sunday, May 22, 2011

Grandma Lupe's Authentic Tamales

No yard sales today.


Click here:
Grandma Lupe's Facebook page

 
Grandma Lupe & Daughter Mary


 Rey did a write up of Grandma Lupe's tamales here: Rey's Tamale Page 










Wanted to share pictures of  Aunt Crispina's Back yard in lovely Jamul,CA.  The weather was beautiful. We celebrated Grandma Lupe's 80th Birthday. Grandma Lupe has been featured on the Food Network for her famous tamales. I have personally seen people wait hours  at the Indio Tamale Festival to purchase her legendary tamales.   Mary, one of Grandma's Lupe's daughters, is my Yard Sale partner in crime.
Here are some pictures I took before I left......