Los Angeles, California

I spent the New Year in LA. I had a vanilla cupcake at Yummy Cupcakes in Santa Monica, part of the current LA cupcake craze. As the locals know, LA has epidemics of food fads, perhaps most notably, in recent memory, Pinkberry (is it really yogurt?). I also went to Malibu Seafood, which is a nice cheap fried-fish/taco shack combined with an upscale fish market.