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When an email showed up in my inbox last with the headline “A Tamale Named After You,” there was a brief, fleeting, ego-driven second in which I thought someone had actually named a tamale after me.
I told as much to the sender, our town’s most strident tamale proponent Richard Lambert , who, amidst teaching tamale classes and selling them over the years, was the force behind the creation of National Tamale Day on March 23, 2015. He responded, kindly, “It could happen, Matt.”