Field Notes Summer 2026 “Paletas” Edition – Limited Quarterly 3-Pack Memo Books

The Field Notes Summer 2026 “Paletas” Edition arrives in the colours of a freezer cabinet in high summer. It is the 71st Quarterly Edition from the Chicago outfit, and its subject is the paleta — the fruit-filled ice on a stick sold from carts and paleterías across the city’s Mexican-American neighbourhoods. Nine flavours run across three separate 3-Packs. Every word, cover to colophon, is in Spanish; these are Notas de Campo, and they make no apology for it.

Two varnishes share each cover, a shiny gloss laid over a frosty matte, and the gloss sits fractionally proud — you can find the edge of the fruit with a thumb without looking down. Inside are 48 pages of dot-grid printed on cream stock rather than white, which quietly takes the glare off the page when you are working outdoors. A notebook rarely tells you what month it is. This one never lets you forget.

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