The Two 90 Food Court is easy to miss along a rough-and-tumble stretch of Jones Road just east of Highway 290 in Jersey Village.

During rush hour, though, if you happen to be stuck waiting to get onto 290 and your windows are rolled down, you may detect the faint smell of hickory wood smoke and a fragrance of steamed corn husks.

CC’s Hot Tamales & BBQ

Two 90 Food Court

8131 Jones Road, Jersey Village; 832-735-0506

Open Wed.-Sun.

These are the unmistakable olfactory calling-cards for CC’s Hot Tamales and BBQ, a small food trailer manned by Mississippi-raised pitmaster and tamale-maker Shintri Simpson.

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Simpson practices the art and tradition of making Delta-style tamales.

This style of tamale originated in the Mississippi Delta region of that state, bounded by Memphis Tennessee to the north and city of Vicksburg in the south.

There is no definitive history of how tamales – an........

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