“We should not criminalize poor people for trying to put food on the table,” said state Rep. Alma Hernandez, one of five Democrats who voted to override Hobbs' veto. “That is just absurd.” Arizona governor says street tamales pose health risk:
Milagros Cruz and her wife Alexandra Herrera talk while Cruz prepares tamales in Phoenix, on April 23, 2023., home cooks making perishable foods who take a $10 online food safety class, register with the state and label their foods could join the roughly 15,000 people who are already registered as part of Arizona’s legal “cottage food” industry, selling homemade tortillas, cookies, roasted nuts and other foods that do not need refrigeration.
“I always worry about being cited,” said Javier Lara, 48, who works at a countertop maker and on weekends sells green chile tamales from his kitchen in Phoenix, using a recipe his grandmother taught him. “I make minimum wage; I’ve got to make extra money. Anything I can do to survive in this world.” The debate over food safety in Arizona could affect many kinds of foods, but it has focused on tamales because they hold a special, Proustian place in Arizona’s culinary soul.
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