Brazilians eat pamonhas to celebrate Festa Junina, the Brazilian harvest festival. In Guatemala, "red" tamales are filled with pork, chicken, olives, peppers, and tomato; "black" tamales combine ...

About 1,500 B.C., cooks in coastal Guatemala figured out that cooking ... is the basis for corn tortillas, chips, tamales and other specialty corn foods. Whole corn that has been nixtamalized ...