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WANDERLUST WEEK!
Day 64: Tamales Anyone?
From Della Valenzuela, World's Window manager, "Some of the most wonderful memories I have with my husband's family are sitting around the table eating the most complicated, flavorful, time consuming specialties bursting with love; mole, sopas, and of course tamales."
If you are wanting to get out, why not try something new? Here are some of the best tamale places in Kansas City according to Della.
Destination:
Tamales!
Reyna's Mexican Bakery. You have to call ahead to pick up, or to see what types are available. It is also a full panaderia. It smells like Mexican spices and fresh bread.
Address: 727 Kansas Av, Kansas City KS
Los Alamos Market y Cocina. Also a grocery store with chimineas and pinatas, it is a cafe with take-out tamales.
Address: 1667 Summit, Kansas City MO
Carniceria y Tortilleria.
Only weekends, by the dozen
Address: 830 Kansas Av, Kansas City KS
Ninfa's Tortillas y Taqueria. They have a guy who is very visible from all parts of the restaurant who is constantly making tortillas and then throwing them into piles to bag up. They bring them to you hot with a squeeze bottle of butter on the table, as an appetizer. They have pork and cheese and jalapeno tamales sold individually and 1/2 or full dozen.
Address: 964 Kansas Av, Kansas City KS
Cafe Corazon
offers delicious tamales made by the non-profit, The Tamale Kitchen which creates jobs for the Hispanic community. This place is full of heart.
Address: 1721 Westport Rd, Kansas City MO
Savor this Café Corazon video which helps to underscore the blending of coffee, heart and art in the Latino community:
Opting to stay-at-home for now? Here is a link to a video on how to make your own tamales!
In Latin American cultures, Food + Family = Love. In addition to strong family ties and culinary delights, they also have rich artistic traditions such as pottery, textile arts, wood carving and mask making. World's Window has a long history of presenting a wide variety of Latin American arts and crafts. Here are just four of our more unusual items:
Are you ready to explore what's in store?
Click on any picture to see the piece in more detail
This flying mermaid represents a petition for bountiful fishing as well as safety on the open seas. The pot she is holding represents an offering. T
his unique piece is made of zumpantle wood ( a type of cottonwood).
Made of tin, this bird wall hanging embodies a bird-spirit. It is a true folk art object from state of Guerrero Mexico. The piece is flat so it will hang nicely against a wall.
Masks are used in a wide variety of dances, ceremonies, festivals, theatre and tourism.
Depictions of demons or devils have been used in various dances and rituals from morality plays to satires.
This mask is attributed to Totonicapan, Guatemala and has real goat horns. It can be easily hung for a dramatic focal point to any area.
Also from the state of Guerrero, Mexico this painted tin frog spirit wall hanging is an image often used as a entreaty for rain.
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A Whole Lot - as in most of the clothing on our sales floor in our Brookside store AND online!!
The following lines are exempt from the sale as "New Arrivals" - Apsara, Color Me Cotton, FLAX, Hand Kreation, Marushka, Oh My Gauze, Renuar, Su Placer and Toofan.
When shopping online, the 20% discount will be automatically applied in the check-out cart to all apparel items included in the sale. Just fill your cart and watch the savings appear!
Happy Shopping!!
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Don't forget to stamp your Passport!
Click on the
"stamp" to add to your "passport."
We keep track of your stamps for you!
"Collect" at least 12 different "country" stamps during the fourth 20 days of our around-the-world trip to
be entered
into the drawing for a $25 gift card.
At the end of our 80-day
Around the World
excursion, all eligible travelers (minimum of 48 country stamps)
will be
entered into a drawing for . . .
a Grand Prize
$100 shopping spree gift card!
Thanks for traveling with us today.
Where to next? Stay tuned!
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Thanks for joining us today during the week of Wanderlust. It has been fun to make local connections and marvel at the variety that Kansas City has to enjoy. It is a great blend of food and art and spirit.
Our online store is, of course, open 24 hours a day. We are closed today in Brookside. We will be open tomorrow (Wednesday-Sunday). The current hours are posted below my signature and we look forward to seeing you!
For those of you who cannot or choose not to shop in our Brookside store right now, we thank you for your continued online shopping support.
And I can't say it enough times -
YOU are an important part of what makes World's Window so special! THANK YOU!
World's Window
"Nobody can define you like you."
P.S.
We are glad to be on this around-the-world virtual journey with you and delighted that you are traveling with us. We hope you are learning some new information as we travel along.
If you haven't already done so, invite some friends to come along! There's still room on this journey!
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P.P.S.
We're keeping our trip "log" up to date. If you think you've missed a day or are new to our journey, click
here
to review where we've visited the last 63 days. Oh, yes, here is that promised video on making your own tamales!
CLOSED Monday and Tuesday
OPEN Wed through Sat, 11 am to 5 pm
Sunday, 12 noon to 5 pm
As always we are "sharing the world" through clothing, jewelry, folk art, textiles and hand-selected gifts -
and
buying locally-owned is a gift to your community!
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A gift card is always a perfect gift.
We have 2 options for
World's Window gift cards.
In-store gift cards can also be purchased by calling
us at 816-361-2500.
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