tamalero

plural tamaleros

1. One who makes or sells tamales.

   The tamale-man or, more correct, the tamalero, is a new and interesting type on our thoroughfares; let us welcome his advent. / Long live the tamalero!

   1896, Sigmund Krausz, “Fresh, Hot Chicken-Tamales!!”, in Street Types of Great American Cities, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: The Werner Company, page 90

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   The tamalero followed in hot pursuit and when he came back found his tamales in the gutter and his pushcart burned up by the benzoline of his open air lamp.

   1894 September 23, “Tamales Calientes: Push-cart Purveyors Who Flourish at Night. […]”, in The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., page 19, column 7

   Along with the tasks of soaking the corn husks, cooking the perfect meat fillings, and the time-consuming process of spreading just the right amount of masa on the corn husks and folding them according to a family tradition that dates back more than 60 years, the tamaleros are also making memories.

   2006 December 20, Luz Peña, “Family that makes tamales, also making memories”, in Vida en el Valle, Fresno, Calif., page C-7, column 1

   […] in 1897, the City Council proposed to not allow tamale wagons to open until nine at night, at the behest of restaurant owners who didn’t like the crowds the tamaleros attracted.

   2012, Gustavo Arellano, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 56

   About 2,000 attended Centro Cultural’s second annual Tamale Fest, held Sept. 24 on the grounds and near Caritas Village in Binghampton, said co-chairperson Margarita Sandino. / Twenty vendors, including local tamaleros, food trucks and artists, participated.

   2016 October 9, Michael Donahue, “Vin-A-Que, Gonerfest …”, in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., page 4M, columns 2–3

   That’s why the Street Vendors Association of Chicago (SVAC), which has a membership of 60 vendors, was organized: to help eloteros, tamaleros and others operate “as legally as possible”, said SVAC director Vicky Lugo.

   2017 July 29, Jacqueline Serrato, “Chicago Eloteros and Tamaleros now ‘as legal as possible’”, in Hoy (Chicago Tribune), Chicago, Ill., page 13, columns 2–3