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CHRISTMAS TAMALES IN PECOS

Sulema Ulate makes Christmas tamales n a small building in Pecos.

“I usually start making them right after Thanksgiving,” she says. “I do twenty, thirty, forty dozen a day. I take pre-orders.”

She makes a bunch. “Last year I did close to four hundred dozen. I had never counted it up before but I guess if you multiply twelve times four hundred you get forty-eight hundred. Th…