Birthday Cupcake from Heirloom Bakery
I’m Dr. Perez, an assistant professor at CSUDH. My majors were in English for my BA, MA, and Ph.D. I finished my Ph.D. in 2011 at USC.
My food selfie is one I took of my birthday cupcake from Heirloom Bakery in South Pasadena. It’s a homemade (well, cafe-made), grown-up version of a Hostess Cupcake. It was excellent.
My favorite food, at least for today and coming out of the holiday season are tamales. I seriously love tamales and not only because they are delicious (which they are) but because of their indigenous roots in the Americas and their associations for me with home, family and the Christmas holidays. Unwrapping a tamale, hot from the steamer and almost burning my fingers is a joy. I like all kinds of tamales, sweet and savory, wrapped in corn or banana leaves, meat or vegetarian. That said, when faced with a variety of tamale choices, my first pick is almost always red pork. There’s something about the sweetness of the corn, the meatiness of the pork and the spiciness of the red chile that makes my mouth water.
This is the third time I’ve taught this class and I’m looking forward to getting to know all of you.
That cupcake looks so delicious! As soon as I saw your picture it took me back to when I would home from school sometimes we would have a ding-dong as our quick snack. I know it wasn’t the healthiest snack, but it was oh so good. I’m going to have to visit Heirloom Bakery soon.
I love red pork Mexican tamales also! I drink it with a cup of hot chocolate to bring it all together.