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Celebrating 15 years of Padrino Foods
This month, we celebrate Padrino Foods being in business for 15 years. It’s milestone moments like this, where you reflect on where you started and where you are now and all of the moments in between. Our story is filled with moments of trust, faith, and true genuine hard work. We truly started with humble…
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Tamale Season at Taco Bueno
It’s tamale season! This is the time of year where you start to see tamales on the menu at more restaurants and on grocery store shelves. We have good news to share! We are proud to announce our partnership with Taco Bueno. Taco Bueno operates 156 restaurants across the south and the Southwest. Taco Bueno…
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The Padrino Foods World Tamale Eating Championship
Come join us for The Padrino Foods World Tamale Eating Championship presented by Market Street. The event happens at noon on September 25 in Old Town Lewisville, TX. This is a Major League sanctioned event that will be featuring professional contestants. How many tamales do you think the professional eaters can eat in 10 minutes? …
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Behind The Scenes
It is true that creating homemade tamales is a very labor intensive and long process. For generations, tamale recipes have been handed down among families. The making of tamales is a family event where everyone comes together to participate in the process. The same is true at Padrino. Our recipe has been refined over the…
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What is a Tamale? — The History
Tamale is the Spanish singular word for a packet of dough made from masa. Masa is ground corn enhanced with lime juice or calcium hydroxide to make the corn more bio-available. The masa dough is spread inside of a corn husk and filled with savory or sweet ingredients and then steamed or baked. Tamales however…
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D Magazine — Ready To Cash In
David and Diane Luther, president and vice president, respectively, of Padrino Foods in Dallas, hope to give the Super Bowl a Tex-Mex flavor with tamales served in the suites and at concession stands. The tamale would be a great way to put a Texas spin at the stadium. We just really feel like this product…
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Take The Night Off From Cooking
We know you find yourself coming home from work and the last thing on your mind is what’s for dinner. No need to worry, take the night off! That’s why we created easy sealed frozen packs to-go. With Padrinos Foods, all you need is to warm up our wonderful tasting tamales for a minute or…
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D Magazine — Padrino Foods Tamales
As a native Texan, tamales are nothing new to me. While growing up, my mom would eat tamales for lunch during the summer and I was always a fan. She regularly got the kind they sell in a can at the super market, (which now, as an adult, I realize really should not even be…