{"id":23543,"date":"2016-11-28T23:10:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T07:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23543"},"modified":"2016-11-28T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T07:10:08","slug":"tamale-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/tamale-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Trifecta of Tamale Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/inditamal.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>THREE CALIFORNIA TAMALE FESTIVALS demonstrate\u00a0why a dish so popular south of the border at Christmas time has made its way into the mouths &amp; minds of Californians. Tamale cooking and\u00a0eating contests are a small sampling of what&#8217;s happening at tamale festivals.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-tamale-festivals.html\">December Tamale Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>INDIO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/indio-tamale-festival.html\">Tamale Festival<\/a> December 3-4, 2016<\/li>\n<li>OXNARD Tamale Festival December 3, 2016 in Plaza Park<\/li>\n<li>PLACENTIA Tamale Festival &amp; Las Posadas December 7, 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dining\/tamales-holiday-tradition-in-california.html\">Find California Tamales<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>(4.5 &#8211;\u00a05 stars)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Tamales Alberto | Chichen Itza |\u00a0Guisados\u00a0|\u00a0Los Cinco Puntos |\u00a0Sandra\u2019s Tamales\u00a0| Guisados DTLA<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO:\u00a0Las Cuatro Milpas | El Borrego Restaurant | Cocina 35 |\u00a0 Maritza\u2019s Mexican Food Restaurant<\/li>\n<li>SANTA ANA: Flor De Mexicali |\u00a0Taqueria Azteca |\u00a0Sabroso! Mexican Grill |\u00a0Taqueria El Zamorano<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: \u00a0La Palma Mexicatessen |\u00a0La Espiga De Oro |\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Primavera <\/span>|\u00a0 The Tamale Lady<\/li>\n<li>INDIO:\u00a0 Arriola\u2019s Tortilleria<\/li>\n<li>OXNARD:\u00a0 La Central Bakery |\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Sabor<\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Money Pancho Mexican Restaurant<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: La Esperanza Mexican |\u00a0 Emma\u2019s Tamales | El Mercadito Mexican Market<\/li>\n<li>PLACENTIA:\u00a0 El Cantarito Restaurant | Mi Casita Restaurante<\/li>\n<li>SALINAS:\u00a0El Charrito |\u00a0Leal\u2019s Bakery |\u00a0El Zacatecano<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE:\u00a0 Maya\u2019s Cafe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THREE CALIFORNIA TAMALE FESTIVALS demonstrate\u00a0why a dish so popular south of the border at Christmas time has made its way into the mouths &amp; minds of Californians. Tamale cooking and\u00a0eating contests are a small sampling of what&#8217;s happening at tamale festivals. December Tamale Festivals INDIO Tamale Festival December 3-4, 2016 OXNARD Tamale Festival December 3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}