Jonathan Gold: LA Weekly to LA Times

The Great Gastronome of the West, Jonathon Gold, is the new restaurant critic for The Los Angeles Times. His new piece ‘Los Angeles’ reflections in a plate’ lightly traces the way  Susan Feniger and Sue Milliken (owners and chefs of Border Grill) incorporated the city’s great diversity into their menus at City Restaurant in the 1980’s. Gold’s best line sums up the true magic of Los Angeles:  “But this is Los Angeles, where you hear a hundred different languages on the streets and smell the cooking of a thousand different food cultures, a city so diverse that the study of postmodern urbanism is often called the L.A. School for short, …”

Here is the extensive archive of Jonathan Gold’s feature stories and reviews for LA Weekly.