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Jonathan Gold

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Jonathan Gold (July 28, 1960 – July 21, 2018) was an American food critic. He wrote for the Los Angeles Times and had previously written for LA Weekly and Gourmet, as well as being a regular on KCRW's Good Food radio program. Gold often chose small, ethnic restaurants for his reviews, although he covered all types of cuisine. In 2007, he became the first food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 1982, while studying art and music at UCLA, Gold began working at LA Weekly as a proofreader. He met his future wife, Laurie Ochoa, there, and the couple followed each other to later jobs at other publications. Gold was an editor for the Weekly in the 1980s in the Weekly's music section, initially writing about classical music then hip-hop, and held several other positions with the paper. With the reluctant support of Weekly's founder Jay Levin, he started his column "Counter Intelligence" in 1986, reviewing underreported restaurants in the ethnic neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The column eventually moved to the Los Angeles Times, where Gold wrote from 1990 to 1996, while also writing reviews of more upscale restaurants for California and Los Angeles magazines, as well as music stories for Blender, Spin, Rolling Stone, and Details. In 1999, he moved from Los Angeles to New York City to become a restaurant critic for Gourmet magazine. His work at the magazine was twice picked as a finalist for the National Magazine Award in criticism by the American Society of Magazine Editors. -from Wikipedia

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