The perfect date shake
Recipe: Date Shake Supreme
A few years back, a friend from California told me about the sweet, creamy date shakes her family stopped for on their way from Los Angeles to Palm Springs. Dates and the desert ― together. To some, the date shake is as quintessentially Southern California as Malibu surf. So when I first moved to this part of the world, I set out in search of the perfect date shake.
Palm Springs was calling. It was summer, but I got into my car, and east to the blazing desert I went. Between San Bernardino and Palm Springs, I stopped at a pharmacy. Even though this isn’t the place you’d expect to get the skinny on date shakes, I began asking questions. A round-faced man piped up, “Hadley’s. Can’t miss it. There’s a big sign.”