Tamales for a sweet tooth.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | May 17, 2004| | Copyright

Byline: Wayne Lee Gay

TODAY'S RECIPE: Dessert tamales

THE BACK STORY: My friend Edgar, a native of San Antonio, Texas, is on the telephone to his mother, a Mexican-born Mexican-American, in San Antonio.

The conversation starts out calmly, mostly in English. Gradually, there's more and more Spanish; gradually it gets sharper and louder.

Then a click as his mother hangs up. I can hear the phone all the way across the room.

"She says I can't make sweet tamales," he says dejectedly. "And she won't tell me the secrets. It's the ...

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