The Year in Reading About Food
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December 19, 2008
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More by Jonathan Gold
99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die: Fugu to Foie Gras, Pizza to Panuchosnew
The theme of this is somewhat morbid. We were going to call it "99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Move to San Diego," but it didn’t have the same ring of finality. You could drive up if you were really in the mood for a maple-bacon biscuit, but from beyond the grave?
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
02-26-2010 |
Food+Drink
L.A. Street Food Fest: Was it Worth All the Waiting?new
Along with several thousand others last weekend, I attended the L.A. Street Food Fest, which featured 30 or so food trucks, oceans of frothing Singha, and a DJ. One's experience of the event depended — like an evening with Kogi — on how much time one was willing to spend waiting in line for a sandwich.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
02-19-2010 |
Food+Drink
Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential L.A. Restaurantsnew
Between a tweet and a truck: This year especially, an essential L.A. restaurant may not even be a restaurant at all -- it may be a tweet telling you which street corner to hang around at, or a cart parked in the same location from the hours of 11 to 2.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
08-28-2009 |
Food+Drink
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Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire Killernew
Anne Rice will never write about vampires again. Not even with these tragically hip, newfangled bloodsuckers lurking about, dating high school girls and coming out of the closet, demanding equal rights. She has told enough vampire stories to last her an eternity.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
12-28-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The New Gay Romance, By and For Straight Womennew
One evening, a small crowd gathers at the Hustler Hollywood store on Sunset Boulevard for a reading of James Buchanan’s new romance novel, Personal Demons. In the book, a gay FBI agent is about to make love to his boyfriend, an LAPD officer.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
12-18-2009 |
Books
He Survived the Pickup-Artist Scene, Now He Wants to Survive the Apocalypsenew
Neil Strauss' own press materials call him "the world's most legendary pickup artist," but his new game is all about learning to survive not dating disasters but actual life-threatening, end-days disasters, an obsession that brings plenty of its own worries.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
03-20-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Author Geoff Nicholson Gets Pedestriannew
The Lost Art of Walking explores the creative fuel for history's greatest thinkers.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
10-31-2008 |
Nonfiction
Infinite Loss: David Foster Wallace and the Troublesome, Inescapable 'I'new
"Was he a good writer?" asked the young sales clerk at Borders.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
09-19-2008 |
Books
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