SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Abelardo Gómez has been selling tamales in downtown Tijuana for more than 30 years.
He and other vendors recently told El Sol de Tijuana that Christmastime is always the busiest, but there is another date for which they prepare a bunch of tamales: February 2nd.
It’s a significant feast day, known to Catholics worldwide as the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, also referred to as Candlemas. It occurs forty days after Christmas and marks the day Baby Jesus was presented at the Temple in Jerusalem…