But for 12 years, the show, adapted from “Too Many Tamales” by Gary Soto (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1993), a children’s book that regularly lands on reading lists in schools across the region and beyond, has routinely sold out its weekend runs of 19 shows, which alternate between English and Spanish.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/us/14tamales.html?ref=theater
My comments: NYT calls it a "Latino" tradition. More correctly, making tamales at Christmas is a Mexican tradition that evolved from a native American tradition.
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I agree with you about the distinction that making tamales is an indigenous tradition and not an Hispanic one. Although other countries may make tamales they were made in Mexico hundreds of years before any European set foot on this continent.
Also, other countries make their tamales with banana skins instead of corn husks which is not an indigenous tradition since bananas were brought over by the Europeans.
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