Jonathan Gold

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Jonathan Gold (July 28, 1960-July 21, 2018) was an American food and music critic.

He had previously written for the Los Angeles Times and Gourmet, as well as being a regular on KCRW's Good Food radio show.

Although Gold often chose small, traditional immigrant restaurants for his evaluations, he did not cover all types of cuisine.

He became the first food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2007.

Personal life

As the eldest of three boys, Gold was born in Los Angeles into a middle-class family. His father was Jewish and worked as a probation officer, and his mother, a high school teacher and librarian who converted to Judaism, was a Judaism teacher and librarian. He worked at a kosher restaurant owned by Steven Spielberg's mother, Leah Adler, for a short time as a UCLA freshman. Laurie Ochoa, a Los Angeles Times reporter and former LA Weekly editor-in-chief, married two children.

Jonathan Gold's younger brother, Mark Gold, was the long-serving president of Heal the Bay and then went on to become UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability as the executive director, but now works for the state of California at the Ocean Protection Council (OPC).

Gold was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in July 2018. He died on July 21, 2018, at the age of 57, just a week before his 58th birthday. His remains were laid to rest at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, with the epitaph "Tacos Forever."

As a tribute to his memory, several buildings and landmarks in Los Angeles were lit in gold on July 28, 2018, which would have been Gold's 58th birthday. Gold was honoured at the annual dinner in April 2019 for his ninth time as a recipient of the James Beard Foundation. In addition, the Foundation revealed that they were renaming the annual Local Impact Award to the Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award, recognizing "new writers who are sharing stories of their towns and regions, as Jonathan consistently shone a spotlight on his beloved Los Angeles."

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Career

Gold began working as a proofreader at UCLA in 1982 while studying art and music. Laurie Ochoa, his future wife, was there, and the pair followed each other to later careers in other journals. Gold, a musician in the early 1980s, was an editor in the Weekly's music section, writing about classical music as well as hip-hop, covering gangsta rap, as well as hip-hop, and other N.W.A. members.

Gold's first food column, "Counter Intelligence," began in 1986 with the reluctant support of Weekly founder Jay Levin, investigating under-the-radar restaurants in Los Angeles' ethnic neighborhoods. The column eventually moved to the Los Angeles Times, where Gold served from 1990 to 1996, as well as writing articles about Blender, Spin, Rolling Stone, and Details. He went from Los Angeles to New York City in 1999 to become a restaurant critic for Gourmet magazine. The American Society of Magazine Editors nominated his work at the magazine twice for the National Magazine Award in Criticism.

When Ochoa was the editor of the Weekly, Gold also returned to Los Angeles, reviving Counter Intelligence for the Weekly and continuing to contribute to Gourmet. Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential LA Restaurants, a weekly best-restaurants list, appeared on The Weekly, and the list of Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential Los Angeles Restaurants grew to become Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants.

Gold became the first food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize in 2007, citing his "zestful, broad restaurant reviews" as the reward for an erudite diner. Gold returned to work at the Los Angeles Times in 2012, replacing S. Irene Virbila as the paper's chief food critic. In 2017, he founded the L.A. Food Bowl festival, which was held in the paper. Gold has received nine James Beard Foundation Awards for his writing over the course of his career.

Megan Garvey, a LAist writer, wrote about Gold's influence on Southern California's food culture, said: "It would be difficult to overstate Gold's influence on Southern California's food culture." His reviews of Los Angeles' restaurants attracted international attention." Anthony Bourdain referred to Gold as "the first one to shift the attention from white tablecloth restaurants to really cool little shops in strip malls," a subject for which Bourdain also became well known.

City of Gold, a 2015 documentary film, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and was the subject of a gold medal.

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