Devour the Desert 

A Palm Springs Food & Culture Journal

The Local Questions, Vol. 8 | Field Notes from Palm Springs: Presidents, Cougars and Other Suspicious Characters
Palm Springs Tours, Palm Springs food tours, Palm Springs history, Palm springs things to do, Palm Springs tourism, Sunnylands, Palm Sorings US Presidents, Palm Springs wildlife david ball Palm Springs Tours, Palm Springs food tours, Palm Springs history, Palm springs things to do, Palm Springs tourism, Sunnylands, Palm Sorings US Presidents, Palm Springs wildlife david ball

The Local Questions, Vol. 8 | Field Notes from Palm Springs: Presidents, Cougars and Other Suspicious Characters

Welcome to Field Notes, our occasional collection of questions about Palm Springs, the desert, and the increasingly unlikely things that happen here.

By now you know the drill. Our guests have questions. Lots of questions. Enough to maybe call them issues. We have help for that here too in Palm Springs. 

So what's the deal with all the presidents who lived here?

Well, first of all, there aren't that many. There is no record that Millard Fillmore ever even visited.

But there are enough to make you wonder whether the Electoral College has a clause nobody told us about.

Read More
The Local Questions, Vol. 5 | Field Notes From Palm Springs
Palm Springs Tours, Palm Springs tourist activities, Palm Springs wildlife, Palm Springs food tours, Palm Springs natural history, Rattlesnakes, Roadrunners david ball Palm Springs Tours, Palm Springs tourist activities, Palm Springs wildlife, Palm Springs food tours, Palm Springs natural history, Rattlesnakes, Roadrunners david ball

The Local Questions, Vol. 5 | Field Notes From Palm Springs

Live at the Thunderdome: Coyote vs. Roadrunner. Roadrunner vs. Rattlesnake.

We’ve already established in Field Notes, Vol. 4 that coyotes occasionally hunt roadrunners.

Which means that, somewhere out there in the Coachella Valley, the real-life version of the Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons is playing out quite differently from the one we grew up with.

But you may not know that roadrunners in turn hunt rattlesnakes. 

It's the desert's rough and tumble version of office politics.

Tonight’s Double Bill:

‍ ‍The Undercard:

Coyote vs. Roadrunner

‍ ‍The Main Event:

Roadrunner vs. Rattlesnake

Read More
The Local Questions, Vol. 1 | Field Notes From Palm Springs
Palm Springs, Palm Springs Tours, Palm Sprngs Food Tours, Things to do in Palm Springs, Palm Springs Questions and Answers, Field guide to Palm Springs david ball Palm Springs, Palm Springs Tours, Palm Sprngs Food Tours, Things to do in Palm Springs, Palm Springs Questions and Answers, Field guide to Palm Springs david ball

The Local Questions, Vol. 1 | Field Notes From Palm Springs

If you spend even a little time here, you start to notice something strange.

Not the obvious stuff—sunshine, palm trees, mountains that look like a painted backdrop—but the quieter questions that keep popping up when you’re standing in line for coffee or driving down Palm Canyon wondering why everything feels slightly unreal in the best possible way.

Here are a few of those questions.

Call it field notes. Call it curiosity. Call it what happens when a desert refuses to behave like anywhere else.

Read More
The Local Flavors | Palm Springs Cocktail Culture: How a Desert City Turned Leisure Into an Art Form
Palm Springs History, Palm springs Bars, Palm Springs Restaurants, Palm Springs Tours, Things to do in Palm Springs, Palm Springs Leisure david ball Palm Springs History, Palm springs Bars, Palm Springs Restaurants, Palm Springs Tours, Things to do in Palm Springs, Palm Springs Leisure david ball

The Local Flavors | Palm Springs Cocktail Culture: How a Desert City Turned Leisure Into an Art Form

Palm Springs has always understood the importance of a good drink.

Not merely the liquid itself, mind you. Plenty of places serve cocktails. Palm Springs elevated them into a social activity, a fashion accessory, a networking tool, and occasionally a competitive sport.

Read More