LCBO Food & Drink Holiday 2021

FROM THE CHEF’S KITCHEN

“ They bring back memories of watching tamals being made in the back of our house in Panama City.”

PANAMANIAN TAMALS

Recipe on page 251

Rossy Earle, food stylist and owner of Diablo’s Fuego Hot Sauce

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made them together. To be able to make something like that in Canada; it felt just like home.” Now Earle produces about 200 of them every Christmas for friends. She says she gets huge pleasure out of it—as do the lucky recipients.

with chicken, olives, roasted peppers and capers. Their inherent portability means they travel well, and so they became a Christmas tradition in many Latin American coun- tries. “I never made them until I was in my 30s,” says Earle. “My mom came to visit, and we

“After all the corn was gath- ered from the harvest, the hard work wasn’t yet over,” says chef Rossy Earle. The corn still had to be dried and ground—a key component of Panamanian tamals . Tamals are cornmeal packets satu- rated with flavour and stuffed

PORTRAIT BY KSENIJA HOTIC´

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