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| 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?
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| (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
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| Click here to learn more about Allison Fishman |
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!
The weather was beautiful. We celebrated 
