{"id":25561,"date":"2018-11-16T14:40:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25561"},"modified":"2018-11-16T14:40:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:40:58","slug":"best-tamale-fests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/best-tamale-fests\/","title":{"rendered":"California Best in US for Tamale Fests"},"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>Thanksgiving means\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/thanksgiving-stuffed-with-meaning.html\">Different Things to Different People<\/a>, and for many turkey is less significant than tamales. Whether fixing turkey &amp; dressing tamales, or skipping the turkey and having beefy tamales as your main dish, there&#8217;s no denying that in California practically half of the population sees the winter holidays as a time in which tamales are a beloved tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrated in festivals throughout the state, the majority take place in December&#8211;and it appears that California has the most tamale festivals in the U.S. These events are a great time to get up to speed on tamale dining as most include music, parades, contests and other entertainment providing a Total Tamale Experience.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-tamale-festivals.html\">California Tamale Fests<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>La Habra Tamale Festival Nov.25, 2018 includes a contest with\u00a0three divisions:<br \/>\nAbuelita\/Abuelito Division &#8211; Exclusively for grandparents with legendary recipes!<br \/>\nMuchacha\/Muchacho Division &#8211; Exclusively for youth ages 17 and under who rock the tamale!<br \/>\nSenora\/Senor Division &#8211; Open division for everyone else!<br \/>\nThere will be two categories:<br \/>\nBest Savory Tamale (Meat, Cheese, Veggie, Other)<br \/>\nBest Sweet Tamale (Dessert, Corn, Cheese, Other)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/indio-tamale-festival.html\">Indio Tamale Festival<\/a><b> <\/b>Dec.1-2 is billed as world&#8217;s largest tamale fest<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oxnard-tamale-festival.html\">Oxnard Tamale Festival<\/a>\u00a0Dec.1 is held in conjunction with the Christmas Parade themed &#8220;Making Spirits Bright&#8221; in 2018<\/li>\n<li>Placentia\u00a0Tamale Festival &amp; Las Posadas Dec.5 includes live entertainment by the Grammy Award Winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/cindy-shea.html\">Mariachi Divas.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Simi Valley&#8217;s\u00a0Santa&#8217;s Tamale Festival Dec.8 at Simi Valley Town Center is a family event raising money for sleeping bags for homeless veterans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving means\u00a0Different Things to Different People, and for many turkey is less significant than tamales. Whether fixing turkey &amp; dressing tamales, or skipping the turkey and having beefy tamales as your main dish, there&#8217;s no denying that in California practically half of the population sees the winter holidays as a time in which tamales are [&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\/25561"}],"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=25561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25562,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25561\/revisions\/25562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}