Here in Texas, what are the holidays without tamales? Fun 4 Alamo Kids is hosting their fourth annual Tamales Festival this Saturday, December 3, 2022, and continues the following day, Sunday, December 4. On both days, the event will start at 10:00 a.m. and last until 6:00 p.m. It is geared toward children, but there is something for everyone to enjoy, including live music and entertainment. The Tamales Festival is also pet friendly. If interested, the event is set to take place at 7701 FM-1346, San Antonio, Texas.

Information from a news release: Join La Gran Tamalada for a cultural tradition at Historic Market Square hosted by La Familia Cortez Restaurant! At this family-friendly event, learn the history and traditions of tamales, enjoy storytelling, take photos with Pancho Claus, and Abuelita hot chocolate sampling and giveaways, and listen to live music! The event will take place from December 10-11 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m and is free and open to the public.

When a trusted friend and tortilla connoisseur tells me of a new Mexican food restaurant, I always try to go. So, on his recommendation I ate at Wapo Taco, a restaurant that opened this past summer immediately outside Loop 410 on Babcock.

On December 6, 2011, students and community members gathered at Lanier High School for a tamalada. Together, the community prepared 17,106 tamales weighing in at 2,420 pounds in only 10 hours. "It's the bringing of people together that makes a tamalada, a tamalada," San Antonio Independent School District 5 Trustee Patti Radle said during an assembly on April 3.

Spices, Christmas music and laughter filled the Lanier High School band hall as students, staff and community volunteers worked all day Wednesday toward a goal of achieving Guinness World Record status with a tamalada on Dec. 7, 2011.