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A Palm Springs Food & Culture Journal

The Local Flavors | When Fish Tacos Surrender to Gravity
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The Local Flavors | When Fish Tacos Surrender to Gravity

There comes a moment with some dishes when you realize the original plan is no longer viable.

You intended to pick it up.

The chef had other ideas.

The al pastor fish tacos at Maleza arrive looking, technically, like tacos. There is a handmade flour tortilla involved. There is fish. There are toppings.

But that's where the similarities to ordinary tacos end.

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The Local Guide | Unwritten Rules of Palm Springs: What the Brochures Forgot to Mention
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The Local Guide | Unwritten Rules of Palm Springs: What the Brochures Forgot to Mention

Every city has its own unwritten rules. Palm Springs simply has better weather while breaking them.

People arrive expecting sunshine...

And they're rarely disappointed.

But what does surprise people is that sunshine isn't merely weather. It's an architectural feature, a lifestyle choice and occasionally a force of nature that transforms your rental car steering wheel into a branding iron.

Palm Springs has its own customs, rhythms and peculiar logic.

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