San Antonio's most famous tamale-maker has another achievement to boast of. Ellen Riojas Clark, known as "La Mera Mera Tamalera" — a nickname she gave herself that translates roughly as "the very, ...
A year before Ana Soria’s mother, Leonor Arenas, passed away, she told her daughter: “Mija, you need to learn how to make tamales, because one day I’m going to be gone.” At the time, Soria joked that ...