What to Know
- Long Beach International Tamale Festival, presented by Playa Larga
- Dec. 7
- Scottish Rite Center
- $17.91 entry and up
- A contest devoted to homemade tamales is on the roster
December may begin in on a Monday in 2025, but we’ll dub the start of the month as Masa Day, if we might.
For the twelfth month is synonymous with tamales, though we do gratefully enjoy them, and constantly crave them, all the calendar through.
But December’s first days have a way of producing a few memorable tamale events, just around the time that home cooks begin to organize their tamale-making teams…