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May 17, 2012
The Fight for Foie Gras in California
California's statewide foie gras ban will kick in on July 1. And as tends to be the case with foie, it's a highly contentious issue. A few days ago, Jonathan Gold had a reminder for ban enthusiasts via Twitter: "Anti-foie gras peeps: Sarah DiGregorio's 2009 Village Voice piece is still definitive." ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2012
Blogroll Gazette: The Life and Death of Food Blogs, Seder Don'ts
The Amateur Gourmet asks: are food blogs over? (We'd like to think not.) The Salt looks into the rise of what some farmers are calling "fake CSAs." Gourmet Live gives us the heads up on 10 seder faux pas. At Daily Dish, Jonathan Gold tackles a tricky dining situation: when dinner guests announ ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2012
Marilyn Hagerty, Grand Forks Olive Garden Reviewer, Speaks
Marilyn Hagerty isn't the first person to review the Olive Garden--in fact, Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist Jonathan Gold did that very thing in the LA Weekly last April--and she won't be the last. But for some reason, her very factual review of the "long-awaited" franchise in Grand Forks, North Da ... More >>
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February 20, 2012
Jonathan Gold Leaving L.A. Weekly for L.A. Times
Jonathan Gold spoke before a rapt audience last May at NYC's Housing Works in support of his wife Laurie Ochoa's literary journal, Slake. Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic and prose stylist Jonathan Gold is apparently leaving our sister paper LA Weekly. The rumors began last Friday, when Go ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
How Much to Tip? Fork in the Road Weighs In
Images_of_Money/Flickr Fifteen percent? Eighteen percent? Twenty percent? Knowing how much to tip these days can be tricky. Jonathan Gold suggests 20 percent, all the time, no exceptions. But what if the tip is already written in? Do you add more on top of that? The economics of tippin ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Umami Burger Will Enfold New York in a Meaty Embrace
crazybluepanda/FlickrEven though New York may not be any closer to getting an In-n-Out Burger than we were on April Fool's Day 2010, it looks like we'll soon receive another meaty Southern Californian love letter in the form of Umami Burger.
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June 22, 2011
Chipotle Doubles Its Organic Produce Use; John Huntsman Digs Mexican Street Food
LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold scores the best assignment ever -- comparing Copenhagen's Noma, San Pellegrino's top restaurant of the year, with Grant Achatz's Alinea for GQ. [HuffPo] The clear grape spirit pisco, originally from Chile and Peru, is making inroads into the crowded U.S. liquor mark ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Jonathan Gold Is a Fan of M. Wells' "Mucusoid Textures"
"I was impressed with a presentation of roasted marrow bones spiked with snails, a layering of mucusoid textures whose virtuosity could only be applauded, as well as pickled pig's tongue with mustard; hand-slivered beef tartare; and a bowl of herbed tripe tossed with long-cooked broccoli and ... More >>
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May 11, 2011
Jonathan Gold Reads Tomorrow Night at Housing Works for Slake
Pulitzer-prizewinning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold will be reading tomorrow night at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in Soho, along with experimental novelist Mark Z. Danielewski, surfer and writer Jamie Brisick, and Slake editors Laurie Ochoa (former editor in chief of L.A. Weekly and wife ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2011
Lady Chefs Rock the James Beard Awards!
So the James Beard Foundation Awards were last night and New York City cleaned up pretty well, with Best New Restaurant going to ABC Kitchen, Outstanding Pastry Chef awarded to Eleven Madison Park's Angela Pinkerton, Outstanding Restaurant Award also nabbed by Eleven Madison Park, and Outstan ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 4, 2011
PRINT LIVES ON
West Coast lit mag gets a taste of the East
Blogs
March 8, 2011
IACP Cookbook and Media Award Finalists Announced
IACPIt's the foodie awards season, and IACP just announced the finalists for its prestigious annual cookbook and journalism awards. Over 500 entries were submitted for consideration in this year's cookbook awards categories, with 52 books in 17 categories selected as finalists via a rigorous ... More >>
Dining
December 29, 2010
Lotus of Siam Rolls the Dice
The noted Las Vegas Thai joint chances New York City
Blogs
December 7, 2010
Xocolatl de David: World's Most Expensive Caramels
My fingers were itching to open the box and see what was inside... Fork in the Road's Lauren Shockey has already written about Meadow, the twee little shop on Hudson Street likely to be one of the foremost foodie gift destinations of the holiday season. A Portland, Oregon import, the store s ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2010
Twitter's #famouscheese List Heats Up, Turns Into Fondue, Disappears
ilovecheese.comEight hours ago, I received the first of a massive wave of tweets adding to a list called #famouscheese. The first one was from Jonathan Gold (@thejgold), but I can't be sure he started it. The purpose of the list was to pun by merging cheese and celebrity names, and soon the t ... More >>
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November 1, 2010
Spiderfang Name Checks Jonathan Gold, Mark Bittman, Tanoreen, Rockaway Taco, Robert Sietsema, and Others in New E.P.
allthatwevemet.comRapper Spiderfang's new EP, Hatchback Music, is a three-song effort, and one of the songs is called "Jonathan Gold." Also appearing on the cut is Staten Island rapper and toaster Prince Zimboo, who co-wrote the track. Zimboo has a history of penning food-related songs, and i ... More >>
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August 2, 2010
What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
Peter Menzel and Faith D'AluisioIn 2006, Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio wrote Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, a gorgeous book made up of portraits of families from all over the world pictured with the amount of food they eat in a week. Each chapter also included a family recipe and a br ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2010
Jonathan Gold on Restaurant Letter Grades
Jonathan Gold, a restaurant critic at our sister publication LA Weekly, is heavily quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the Department of Health letter grades that will be posted on restaurants starting in July. Los Angeles has had a similar system since 1998.
Blogs
May 3, 2010
James Beard Media Award Winners Announced
Cookbook of the YearThe James Beard media and cookbook awards were announced last night at a Kelly Choi- and Andrew Zimmern-hosted event at Espace. Cookbook of the Year went to Colman Andrews' The Country Cooking of Ireland, and the other winners were as follows:
Blogs
March 22, 2010
Beard Awards Media and Journalism Finalists Are Announced
The man himself.The James Beard Foundation is announcing its James Beard Awards finalists via Twitter this morning. The list of chefs has just started rolling out (currently, regional finalists are being named), but the list of final nominees for the foundation's Media and Journalism Awards a ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2010
Humping The Hump, Santa Monica's Whale-Serving Sushi Bar; Jonathan Gold Connection in the Fracas
discoverlosangeles.comThe Hump is actually located on Santa Monica city property, at the Santa Monica Airport. While Santa Monica's whale-slicing restaurant faces fines of $200,000 for itself, and $100,000 for its sushi chef over its admissions that it violated the Federal Marine Mammal Prot ... More >>
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February 23, 2010
Los Angeleno Not So Sure about Saveur's L.A.-centric March Issue
Geez, Saveur and L.A.: get a room. The March issue of Saveur is a love letter to Los Angeles, from the highly touted David Sax piece on the city's deli culture to Jonathan Gold's farm-to-table item. But one Angeleno (at least) is raising an eyebrow at the gushing L.A. praise. Rob Eshman, the ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2010
Josh Ozersky on His Upcoming Wedding Feast, the Demise of the Feedbag and (Food) World Domination
Jason Perlow/Hamburger AmericaJosh Ozersky and friend. Last Friday morning on the windswept tundra that was Soho, one half expected to encounter a pack of wolves trundling down Spring Street. Instead, a larger, equally hungry apparition materialized in the mercifully insulated confines of Bal ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2010
Zach Brooks Talks About Midtown Lunch's Growing Girth: "I'm Just a Fat Guy Who Likes to Eat"
myspace.com/ztbrooksZach Brooks, definitely not in midtown. Four years ago, Zach Brooks walked into Hing Won, a Chinese restaurant near his office in midtown, and noticed two lines. On his left, a bunch of white guys in business suits waited next to a steam table to order Americanized Chines ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2010
Table 8 Will Close, Scott Conant Takes Over Space
Inside Govind Armstrong's misbegotten Table 8 LA chef Govind Armstrong's adventure in New York was brief and unsuccessful. Table 8, in the Cooper Square Hotel, was almost inexplicably bad--inexplicable, because Armstrong's restaurants in LA have been greeted with mainly favorable reviews by ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2009
Anthony Bourdain Pauses to Reflect on 2007, the Year That the Food World Tilted on Its Axis
Anthony Bourdain in a reflective moment.As this miserable decade exhales its last, poisonous breaths, Anthony Bourdain has a few thoughts to share about what's changed in the food world not over the last 10 years, but the last three.
Blogs
October 27, 2009
Jonathan Gold Gets His 'New Yorker' Profile
Rena Kosnett/LA WeeklyJonathan Gold drinks to life, Pulitzers.Jonathan Gold's already won the only Pulitzer ever awarded for food criticism, so it's appropriate that a New Yorker profile would follow, albeit two years after the fact. The article, by Dana Goodyear, will appear in Monday's issu ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2009
David Chang and Mario Batali: So Important, So Overrated
Grub Street surveyed members of the gastronobility to assess the "state of our food union," questioning the likes of Anthony Bourdain, Alan Richman, Gael Greene, and LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold. Unsurprisingly, New York figured largely into their appraisal: David Chang and Mario Batali were named two ... More >>
Dining
December 10, 2008
Scenes From the Roosevelt Food Court
New Flushing malls offer regional Chinese specialties
Blogs
November 20, 2008
Paneling
New Flushing malls offer regional Chinese specialties
Blogs
May 31, 2007
Last Meal: Jonathan Gold Discovers Roast Prosciutto
New Flushing malls offer regional Chinese specialties
NYC Life
May 22, 2007
Jonathan Gold's last meal
. . . starts with bloody steaks and ends at Prada
Blogs
April 16, 2007
Food Pulitzer for Jonathan Gold
. . . starts with bloody steaks and ends at Prada
Dining
February 13, 2007
A Hero's Welcome
Chinatown's new banh mi parlor turns to France for inspiration
Dining
August 23, 2005
Nip and Squirt
Tiny juicy buns linger, improve, and rule at Mott Street haven
News
March 30, 2004
Asian Logroll
Amanda Hesser's spice market review sparks debate over foodie ethics and tableside manners
Specials
April 9, 2002
Letters
Amanda Hesser's spice market review sparks debate over foodie ethics and tableside manners
News
April 2, 2002
Everyone's a Critic
Foodies Add Spice to ASME Awards

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