The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
Interview
To make ends meet, he developed his own tamale recipe and set up shop on South Street in Cleveland, Mississippi. John…
Gentle Lee Rainey was born on Dockery Plantation, a few miles east of Cleveland, Mississippi. Dockery, the one time…
A Greenville native, Larry Lee worked a passel of odd jobs before turning to hot tamales as his vocation. Now Larry…
After working at other tamale businesses around the Delta, Lumumba took the best elements from each and created…
For generations, tamale cravings have been satisfied by coffee cans filled with hot tamales passing out those doors.…
In December 2004, revered hot tamale cook and vendor Joe Pope of Rosedale, Mississippi, passed away. He embodied the…
Tamale recipes vary from place to place, person to person. In the Mississippi Delta, no two people make hot tamales…
Two songs, and the men who recorded them, further complicate the origins of tamale tradition in the Mississippi Delta.
Pearl’s tamales are different from most Delta-style tamales. She cooks and serves them in a tomato-based sauce. When…
