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My friends have been encouraging me to create a blog about cooking.  I am an a visual artist, I have a family, and I have  a  professional job in my field.  I am strongly tied to my Xicana culture and work to maintain cultural pride and hertiage for myself and my family.  The best way to do that is by maintaining old customs and/or creating new ones.  A big part of cultural hertage are celebrations and of course,  food.  I titled this blog "Tamalera Tejana" to show my Tejana pride and for me tamales are a food that is strongly linked to  keeping traditions alive, which isn't easy.  My mother Alicia Rodriguez De Luna was born in 1932, the oldest of ten children.  One of my earliest memories is of seeing a slaughtered pig on the kitchen table.  She could made tamales like she sewed and embroidered other beautiful things: with attention to detail, with skill.