Oklahoma sees growth in immigrants from Central America
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December 18, 2016
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Talk quickly turns to tamales when Edgar Argueta considers the differences between Hispanic groups who call Oklahoma home.
The 64-year-old property owner prefers tamales wrapped in plantain leaves, like the kind he ate in his native Guatemala nearly 40 years ago.
"If I cook my food for the Mexicans, they don't like it," Argueta said, laughing before a weekly citizenship class he teaches at the Hispanic American Mission in Oklahoma City. "It's different. Mexicans say they have the best food, but we have the best."
The great food debate may continue in Oklahoma for a while....
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