Made by Grandma

By Kimberly Espinosa

Memories that Make Home Exhibition

Seeing my grandmas and aunts making the comfort foods I remembered eating in Koreatown made me so happy. My grandma gathered the banana leaves from the trees behind her house to make tamales de frijol. Eating them was so delicious but having them with family made it many times better. Another day, I saw her placing tortillas out on a pinkish paper. I did not notice it until I got back from Veracruz, but the same kind of paper is used to wrap some of the foods relatives sometimes bring back to family living in the U.S. who miss them.