ROSEDALE — Locals and world-travelers who enter the White Front Café/Joe’s Hot Tamale Place all come for the same thing — legendary hot tamales made famous by the late Joe Pope. They are part of a tradition in the Delta, one that Joe’s sister, Barbara Pope, is carrying on in the white clapboard building in […]
Author Archives: Anne Martin
Anne Martin grew up in Greenville, the middle of the hot tamale epicenter. She is an award-winning journalist, having spent 30 years in broadcast news with WXVT and WABG television stations in Greenville. She is now a writer, documenting the stories of her beloved Mississippi Delta. She has written for Life in the Delta, Eat. Drink. Mississippi and Delta magazine. She is also co-founder of the Delta Hot Tamale Festival and author of Delta Hot Tamales: History, Stories and Recipes. She lives on a farm in Rosedale, where she enjoys country life, exploring old cemeteries, traveling, experimenting in the kitchen and exploring the history of the Delta.