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Santos Tacos s pupusas topped with curtido. Photograph by José R. Ralat Before each Crowley High School football game, Maggie Santos would tell her sons, Matthew and Michael, “If you beat this team, I’ll feed you.” Most of the time she was joking as a way to encourage her boys. She got more serious in 2012, when Matthew was a freshman and the team made the playoffs after an undefeated season. That led to a series of feasts during the playoffs for which she’d happily rustle up chili con carne–topped cheese enchiladas, flautas, fajitas, pollo asado, and tamales for more than eighty players, team staff, and family members. “We made five hundred tamales for one night,” she says. Sometimes, Santos would have to take the day off from her job as a secretary at Crowley ISD, but she didn’t mind. “I love to cook!” was a line she repeated throughout an interview with ....