Pasquale's Tamales... shuck suckin' good!
All Natural - No Additives - No Preservatives
- Hand Rolled
Mexican hot tamales that taste so good, you'll
suck the shucks!
Joe St. Columbia, Jr. is proprietor of Pasquale's Tamales in West Helena, Arkansas. His Sicilian-American
family has been making hot tamales since
the early years of the twentieth century.
Now considered a specialty gourmet food,
Pasquale's Tamales have become a Delta tradition!
It all began when Joe's Sicilian immigrant
grandfather settled in the Delta and visited
the cotton fields and sawmills along the
levee, delivering foods as a merchant. He
was a peddler marketing his wares to the
immigrant workers that worked along the river.
Basic similarities between Italian and Spanish
made it possible for Pasquale St. Columbia
to communicate with the Mexican workers he
met and befriended, and they taught him to
make the hearty and delicious portable food
they brought to work in the fields day after
day. Migrant workers shared their hot tamales
in other cotton towns, and eventually the
tradition of Delta tamales took hold.
Today, Pasquale's Tamales is a thriving tamale business in the little
Delta town of West Helena, Arkansas, shipping
thousands of the spicy, all-beef hot tamales
made from Pasquale's heirloom recipe all
over the country. St. Columbia, Jr. lines
corn shucks with masa he makes from freshly
ground yellow corn meal, uses only the finest
quality beef and spices in the filling, and
simmers the hand-rolled tamales in a spicy
broth for six hours rather than steaming
them. Pasquale's Tamales... tastes so good you'll suck the shuck!