Tamale

Definitions

1. A city in Ghana, the capital city of the Northern Region.
2. A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.

Equivalents

Examples

“She would peel back the husk, ladle over the salsa verde, stab a plastic fork straight down into the heart of the masa, and hand the tamale over to me.”

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