Jonathan Gold (1960-2018)

Jonathan Gold was the restaurant critic and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Gold also hosted KCRW's Good Food on the Road.

His love of all things gastronomical took him from the LA Weekly, where he started as a proofreader in 1982, to the Los Angeles Times which featured his "Counter Intelligence" column. At Gourmet, Jonathan served as the magazine's New York restaurant critic, before relocating back to California to rejoin the LA Weekly for more than a decade. In 2012, he returned to the L.A. Times. If you follow the Southern California food scene, you know about Gold's ability to find and savor Uzbek, Korean, Peruvian, and Islamic Chinese cuisine, and turn readers on to his latest obsessions like the only Trinidadian restaurant in Inglewood.

In 2007 Gold won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism — the first win for a food writer – and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2011 as well. He has been honored twice as a National Magazine Award finalist in criticism by the American Society of Magazine Editors.

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