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!