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culinary capitals, where citizens passionately argue about the best sushi bar or fusion food
truck. LA is also a melting pot of multicultural cooking, from Thai Town to the tamale
shops of East LA. Outside the cities, follow your nose and let it lead you serendipitously
up and down California's coastal highways, stopping at seafood shacks, rollicking
brewpubs, farmers markets and vineyards.
Creative Culture
From the mid-19th-century Gold Rush to the dot-com bubble, California has survived ex-
treme booms and busts, often getting by on its wits. Today Hollywood still makes most of
the world's movies and TV shows, fed by a vibrant performing arts scene on stages across
the state. Trends are usually kick-started in California not by moguls in offices, but by
motley crowds of surfers, artists and dreamers concocting the out-there ideas behind
everything from skateboarding to biotechnology. If you linger long enough, you might ac-
tually see the future coming.
