City of Gold

An informative, insightful, fascinating, 96-minute, Laura Gabbert documentary that focuses on the Los Angeles food scene primarily through the eyes and stomach of well-respected, Pulitzer-Prize-winning food critic and writer Jonathan Gold and consists of interviews with his wife/Los Angeles Times Arts and Entertainment editor Laurie Ochoa, daughter Isabel Ochoa Gold, novelists Michelle Huneven and Jervey Tervalon, chefs/restaurant owners (such as Bricia Lopez, Duane Earle, Ludo Lefebvre, Nancy Silverton, Gener Agonafer, Jazz and Tui Singsanong, David Chang, Raul Ortega, and Ray Choi), authors David Sax and Ruth Reichl, James Beard Foundation executive Mitchell Davis, food TV hosts Andrew Zimmern and Zach Brooks, University California at Berkeley professor Michael Dear, Los Angeles Times writer Carolina Miranda, Los Angeles Times Editor-in-Chief Davan Maharaj, senior food critic Robert Sietsema, architectural critic and educator Reyner Banham, radio host and culinary multitasker Evan Kleiman, editors Sue Horton and Peter Meehan, and journalists Laurie Winer, Allan Salkin, and Calvin Trillin.
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