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Jonathan Gold

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Seattle Times' Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong and The Strangers' Eli Sanders Win Pulitzers

    To say it was a big day in Seattle journalism would be an understatement. Monday was a huge day, with the announcement that The Stranger's Eli Sanders had taken home a Pulitzer in feature writing for his piece, "The Bravest Woman in Seattle," and the Seattle Times' Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Make Medibles at Home With The Official High Times Cookbook

    High Times magazine has been a trusted source for information on growing, smoking and eating marijuana for nearly 40 years. And finally, they have published their first ever cookbook. With this book, they have managed to elevate cannabis cuisine above pot brownies and space cakes, to dishes such as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Stop Calling Yourself an Expert, Food Consultant Pleads

    It would be tempting to call Clark Wolf an expert in expertise if the restaurant consultant wasn't so wary of how food writers have cheapened the term. Wolf, who next week is moderating a New York University Fales Library panel on knowledge and influence in the culinary sphere, says contemporary cr ... More >>

  • Food

    February 22, 2012

    826 Seattle's Tiny Food Critics

    Can ripping on restaurants improve a child's diet?

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Why It's Worth Teaching Food Criticism to 9-Year Olds

    Grappling for ways to reduce soaring childhood obesity rates, many policymakers have settled on a kind of serfdom solution, reasoning that if kids spend part of the day with their fingers burrowed in fresh soil, they'll develop an unshakeable appreciation for fruits and vegetables. Not everyone is e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    The Hunt Club: Sol-Long-Tang

    Our recently-concluded The Hunt Club contest called upon Voracious readers to find 10 esoteric edibles somewhere in Seattle. This week, we'll look more closely at a few of the listed items - and tell you where our top scavenger hunter found them. Sol-long-tang is the Korean version of stone soup, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Ruth Bourdain a No-Show at Beard Awards

    ​If eighty percent of success is showing up, Ruth Bourdain's making the most of the remaining twenty percent. The Twitter-only satirist last Friday won the James Beard Foundation's first-ever humor award for a stream of tweets admixing Ruth Reichl's romanticism and Anthony Bourdain's machismo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Channeling Hemingway In Search Of The Ultimate Oyster Wine

    Photo by Leslie KellyMy view at yesterday's Oyster Wine finals. Pretty awesome, right?​The room was church-quiet, the reverential silence punctured only by the sound of slurping as a group of judges worked diligently to find the perfect oyster wine. This was serious business, yet it was all I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    UPDATED: International Association of Culinary Professionals Awards Finalists List Is Out

    ​If you're reading this blog, you probably have some fondness for food writers (and really, who doesn't? We're all such a cuddly bunch). If you have some fondness for food writers, then you can probably rattle off a list of your favorites off the top of your head--those who have moved you or ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Our Top 10 List Of 2010 Top 10 Food Lists

    Thank you FoodNetworkHumor.com for getting us all hot with your great list.​Oh baby. Oh baby. Yeah, baby, that's so good. I've got to have some more. Give it to me. That's not dialogue from some porn site, but the ramblings of Food Network superstars. Or, at least that's what I imagine them m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    Speaking of Endangered Species, Restaurant Critics Sound Off on Yelp, Food Blogs, Free Speech, Groucho Marx and Taiwanese Teenagers

    ​Yesterday, Andrew Knowlton, restaurant editor at Bon Appetit magazine and writer of the BA Foodist blog had a few words to say to a frustrated restaurateur dealing with reviews from knuckleheads on Yelp. His advice? Don't get into fights with anonymous online posters, remember that food is a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    James Beard Awards: Jason Wilson Brings Home the Gold

    ​I've been tracking the James Beard Awards now for a couple months, handicapping the odds on the semifinalists (here, here and here), talking about the finalists and their chances (here), and reporting on my own crushing defeat at the hands of Jonathan Gold on Sunday night during the JBF Media ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Winners at the James Beard Awards: Round 1

    ​Last night was the big night for the nominees (myself included) in the James Beard Foundation Media & Book Awards--the "Oscars of the Food World" as everyone is fond of calling it, and a serious party for gastronomy's big time movers and shakers. David Chang from Momofuku was there (nominated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Jason Sheehan Nominated for James Beard Award

    ​Some of you love him. Some of you hate him. But when it comes time for the James Beard Award finalists to be announced, odds are he--that being Jason Sheehan--will be among the nominees. And this year is no different, as Sheehan is among three finalists in the review category, pitted against ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Update: Handicapping the James Beard Awards

    Into the home stretch...​This morning, the finalists for the James Beard Awards were announced from the floor of the Palace Cafe in New Orleans--a suitably food-obsessed city, from which many of the awards' big winners have come. And like I promised, here I am to see how my wicked handicapping ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    The Food Section: American Wine Prices Plummet, BPA Found in Most Canned Food

    ​The New Yorker runs a profile of LA Weekly restaurant critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Gold, a man who drives 20,000 miles a year and consumes obscene quantities of food hunting down LA's most interesting things to eat. (You have to be a subscriber to read it online, so pick up a cop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2008

    Seattle Restaurant Gossip, a New Approach to Cookbook Reviewing, and Other Food News

    ​The New Yorker runs a profile of LA Weekly restaurant critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Gold, a man who drives 20,000 miles a year and consumes obscene quantities of food hunting down LA's most interesting things to eat. (You have to be a subscriber to read it online, so pick up a cop ... More >>

  • Food

    March 19, 2008

    Bada Sushi’s Sashimi Is Amazingly Fresh

    So fresh it swims up to greet you when you walk in.

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2007

    Restaurant Critic Wins Pulitzer

    So fresh it swims up to greet you when you walk in.

  • Food

    December 21, 2005

    Mazel Tofu

    How to do Christmas the Jewish way, even if you're not.

  • Food

    April 14, 2004

    Of Cabbages and Zings

    In an unlikely spot, a gateway to an unsung cuisine.

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