Across Colorado, home cooks are preparing and selling tamales from their personal kitchens in violation of current state regulations. State legislators are now working to change that by adding tamales to the official roster of homemade foods that residents can legally market and sell.
The proposed legislation, known as the Tamale Act, would expand Colorado’s existing cottage food laws to include the popular dish. Currently, numerous home-based food entrepreneurs operate in a legal gray area when they sell their homemade tamales to customers.
