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    Good Food

    Shrimp & Grits Hit Venice

    Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize winning food writer for the LA Times. He reviews Govind Armstrong’s new restaurant Willie Jane in Venice.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize winning food writer for the LA Times. He reviews Govind Armstrong’s new restaurant Willie Jane in Venice. Jonathan recommends the shrimp and grits, biscuits with honey butter, BBQ quail with corn pudding, grilled shrimp and watermelon salad, sweet tea brined pork chops and oatmeal cookie and mascarpone sandwich for dessert. At brunch he recommends the chicken and waffles.

    Willie Jane

    1031 Abbot Kinney Blvd

    Venice

    (310) 392-2425

    All of Jonathan Gold's restaurant suggestions are on the Good Food Restaurant Map.

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    3. 15:55Market Report
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    6. 39:42Etrog Liqueur
    7. 47:32Could You Survive on Just $4.50 a Day?
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Gillian Ferguson

      Supervising Producer, Good Food

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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    The full episode

    5 of 7
    Remembering Marcella Hazan, Cooking on a Food Stamp Budget
    1. 0:00Remembering Marcella Hazan
    2. 7:41Anne Willan’s New Memoir - One Souffle at a Time
    3. 15:55Market Report
    4. 32:34The Plight of the Honeybee
    5. 32:50Shrimp & Grits Hit VeniceYou’re reading this
    6. 39:42Etrog Liqueur
    7. 47:32Could You Survive on Just $4.50 a Day?
    Back to Good Food