Draft post cleanup #10: trip to LA artificially sweetened by Carolyn de la Peña

Yet another post in my "draft blog post cleanup" series.  Here is #10:

Went on a mini trip to UCLA for a mini meeting in November. It seemed appropriate that I brought with me to Los Angeles, land of empty pleasures - the new book from UC Davis Professor Carolyn de la Peña - "Empty Pleasures" on the history of artificial sweeteners. So I took a picture of the book overlooking part of LA from my hotel room:

The book is great read by the way ...