Steven Spurrier, vintner who turned the world on to Napa Valley wines with a single tasting, dies. Chang graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and has written for the St. Petersburg Times, the Oregonian and the Mercury News. “The pre- and post-meal conversation in the truck was part of the Jonathan Gold experience, and it was not optional.”. He was married to Laurie Ochoa. Readers adored Gold. Renu Nakorn in Norwalk and Sri Siam in North Hollywood are good bets. The disease was diagnosed in early July 2018. “I loved that when I went out with him — and I think this was true for a lot of people — he picked me up in his ridiculously oversized and always on-the-ropes truck and he dropped me off, even if it meant he was driving across Los Angeles four times in a night,” Meehan said. It was typically found in places “jammed into a strip mall, sharing a parking lot with a doughnut parlor, a kebab house and a check-cashing emporium,” as he described Culver City’s Mayura. Jonathan Gold was honored with the James Beard Foundation’s award for best restaurant criticism Friday evening. Gold died at St. Vincent Medical Center, in Los Angeles, at the age of 57 on Saturday evening. Earnest and slightly awkward in person, he would voice displeasure with a gentle rebuke instead of gleeful excoriation. Peter Meehan, a family friend and former editor of the now-defunct food magazine Lucky Peach, said he had shared more restaurant meals with Gold than anyone else outside his immediate family since meeting him six years ago. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer had a cult following not just among Angeleno foodies, but among fans across the world who treated his reviews as the final word. “Jonathan understood that food could be a power for bringing a community together, for understanding other people,” said Ruth Reichl, who edited Gold at The Times and at Gourmet. While driving, he liked listening to opera. (2015) and City of Gold (2015). The disease was diagnosed in early July. A voracious reader as much as a voracious eater (as far as anyone could tell, his only aversions were to eggs and peanut butter, although he loved peanuts), Gold was famed for his extensive knowledge of whatever subject he was tackling. In his peregrinations, he came to appreciate how Los Angeles’s far-flung neighborhoods allowed small, distinct cultures to flourish without bumping into one another. Food criticism before him — and even during his time — focused on the austere, the high-end, the Michelin stars. Gold was mission-driven as a critic, hoping his food adventures through the city’s many immigrant enclaves would help break down barriers among Angelenos wary of venturing outside their comfort zones. A devoted father, he would cook dinner for the kids before heading out for the night to review a restaurant, take them to Comic-Con and bring friends to Leon’s flag football games. “He so greatly enjoyed being there for people, and making people happy,” Mark Gold said. In his first term at LA Weekly he met Laurie Ochoa, an intern and now an editor, whom he married in 1990. “While most people might not go to places I write about, they know all the kinds of food that are available,” he said in a 2012 interview. Monday: Jonathan Gold, the beloved Los Angeles food critic, died over the weekend. She survives him, along with their children, Isabel and Leon, and Mr. Gold’s brothers, Josh and Mark, who is the associate director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at U.C.L.A. “Someday, if he’ll allow me, I’d like to take Mr. Wells to Watts.”. Jonathan died 27th October, 1850, and his aged wife, Rachel, on the 5th of the same month, eight years afterwards. “Oh, my God, they were so bad,” Mark Gold recalled. He is known for his work on Hype! The Gold family and that green pickup truck. Even early in his career, he demonstrated an innate gift for language: During a photo shoot one day in 1989, Eazy-E “reappears with a heavy-canvas duffel bag and empties weaponry onto the grass like a Little League coach pouring out bats and balls,” Gold wrote in L.A. Weekly. 8:55 p.m.: This article was updated with additional reaction to Jonathan Gold’s death. The hallmark of his style, though, was the second-person voice. Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold has died at 57. On January 19, 2008, he died from a stroke at a San Diego hospital, ten days before a scheduled performance in Scottsdale, Arizona. Here We Go Again (2018), Hang 'Em High (1968) and The Streets of San Francisco (1972). His only struggle: getting the food done on time (at work, Gold was also notorious for busting deadline). Although he would become famous for his food criticism, he was an equally gifted music writer and became L.A. Weekly’s music editor. His disease had been diagnosed in early July 2018. Jonathan Gold was diagnosed with cancer early in July 2018. “Before Tony Bourdain, before reality TV and ‘Parts Unknown’ and people really being into ethnic food in a serious way, it was Jonathan who got it, completely,” the writer and editor Ruth Reichl said. Editors were driven to despair by his habit of taking deadlines seriously only once they were safely in the past. Gold and Ochoa have two children, 23-year-old Isabel and 15-year-old Leon. His live discussions on latimes.com, Lunchtime with Jonathan Gold, were a way for readers to pepper him with questions on food, restaurant etiquette and recommendations. “In the early ’80s, no one else was there. Far from a stunt eater, he nevertheless understood that a writer trying to persuade unseen strangers to read about a restaurant one or two counties away cannot afford to dismiss the persuasive power of chopped goats’ brains, pigs’ blood soup or an octopus leg separated from the rest of a living octopus so recently that it twirls itself around the nearest pair of chopsticks. “And it turns out food is a pretty good prism through which to view humanity.”. After college, he had a number of jobs — information operator, music booker, proofreader at a downtown law journal — and then began working for L.A. Weekly, where he wrote about music, art, theater, movies and food. 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In more than a thousand reviews published since the 1980s, Mr. Gold chronicled his city’s pupuserias, bistros, diners, nomadic taco trucks, soot-caked outdoor rib and brisket smokers, sweaty indoor xiao long bao steamers, postmodern pizzerias, vintage delicatessens, strictly omakase sushi-yas, Roman gelaterias, Korean porridge parlors, Lanzhou hand-pulled noodle vendors, Iranian tongue-sandwich shops, vegan hot dog griddles, cloistered French-leaning hyper-seasonal tasting counters and wood-paneled Hollywood grills with chicken potpie and martinis on every other table. “I didn’t even know what ‘food critic’ means,” she said. He oversaw contracts for San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County and led construction of San Francisco’s BART and the Channel Tunnel. Every summer, the family would travel to Italy with Silverton, who said it was not uncommon for Gold to pile Ochoa, Isabel and Leon into the car, drive three to four hours away for lunch, return, and then drive another two hours to try another place for dinner. Mr. Gold walked into the office of LA Weekly, an alternative paper, while he was still in college and was soon reading proofs and pitching big, doomed ideas about the zeitgeist. “I love going out to eat in the way a theater critic loves theater. His father, Irwin, was a probation officer assigned to supervise Roman Polanski and Charles Manson, among other offenders. It’s just hard to process.”, Tell us how Jonathan Gold shaped your L.A. experience ». He married Laurie Ochoa, currently an editor at the Los Angeles Times and former editor-in-chief of the LA Weekly; they had two children. The Times developed a “Goldbot,” a Facebook chatbot that would churn out Gold-approved suggestions on where to dine. He was a skilled home cook, friends said, and specialties included gumbo, red beans and rice, carbonara, roasted meats and “anything where he was able to introduce pork,” Silverton said. Gold followed, taking a position as New York restaurant critic at the magazine. 5 near the beach. In “City of Gold,” Sue Horton, an editor at Reuters, says of his use of the second person, “He’s forming a bond with the reader: You and I are people who eat deer penis.”, His prose was apparently as agonizing to produce as it was pleasurable to read. Cruising along the freeway in the critic’s beloved truck, the two were ostensibly headed toward Lefebvre’s bistro Petit Trois when Gold took an abrupt detour. Many chefs noted Gold’s fairness and praised his ability to recognize their vision — sometimes before they had even defined it. Gold died of pancreatic cancer at St. Vincent Medical Center on Saturday evening, according to his wife, Times arts and entertainment editor Laurie Ochoa. Here We Go Again. Although he appreciated and wrote beautifully about fine dining, he revered the taco truck more than the tasting menu. She joined the newspaper in 2007 and has covered food, technology and retail; she was also the deputy editor of Food and an assistant editor in Business. Remembering the Inimitable Jonathan Gold The beloved critic, dead at 57, was the first food writer to win a Pulitzer Prize—and a vital champion of L.A.’s culinary riches. His mother, Judith Gold, was a school librarian who had been a magician’s assistant. Although he got his degree in music history, in 1982, he had a sideline in art; he took a class with and worked as an assistant for the guerrilla performance artist Chris Burden. “But Jonathan opened my eyes.”. He died at the age of 57. He also wrote for publications that included Spin, Rolling Stone and The Times. “He ended up becoming like L.A.’s translator,” said longtime friend Evan Kleiman, host of KCRW’s “Good Food,” which Gold appeared on weekly. Jonathan Gold’s Death. Search Obituaries & Guest Books on Legacy.com, Honor a loved one, place an obituary notice, James Levine, conductor who ruled over New York’s Metropolitan Opera, dies at 77. He died of pancreatic cancer on Saturday, July 21, one week before his 58th birthday. Empathy, understanding, commensality: That’s what he brought to the game,” Meehan said. Following a litany of sui generis dishes at Alinea in Chicago that included “a dish of minuscule cremini and maitake mushrooms whose plate is perched on an inflatable pillow filled with pine smoke,” Mr. Gold broke into the interrogative voice: “Is it quibbling to suggest that the delicate fragrance of maitake, a mushroom prized for its aroma of pine, was obliterated by the seepage from the pillow, and that nearly every dish was oversalted to the same, undoubtedly intentional degree? Stephen Bechtel Jr., who led family engineering firm on its global drive, dies. Thinking of him not being here is just hard. After New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells disparaged the Oakland location of Locol, a fast-food chain that originated in Watts, Gold penned an impassioned essay in response. He could pack infinitesimal shadings of nuance into a rhetorical question. Andrea Chang is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. When he was old enough to fall under the influence of new wave pop music, he plugged in his instrument and sawed away at it in the short-lived local band Overman. “L.A. Then you just come back the next day and you’re in the studio like it’s no big deal. “He’ll drop in a heavy metal reference right next to a literature reference right next to talking about something your grandmother cooked two generations ago,” said his brother Mark Gold, associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability at UCLA. He was really writing about the people more than the food.”. “They get that this one place has really good soup dumplings, one has Shandong-style beef rolls and another has fantastic beef noodle soup. He was a trailblazer and he really did change the way that we all write about food.”. Gold met Ochoa in 1984 while the two were working at L.A. Weekly — he as a proofreader, she as an intern. His reviews were compiled into a book, “Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles,” in 2000. awards & accolades. Gold spoke often about how fortunate he was to do what he did for a living. ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler, the middleweight boxing great whose title reign and career ended with a loss to ‘Sugar’ Ray Leonard in 1987, died Saturday at 66. Ms. Reichl, who hired him at The Los Angeles Times and Gourmet, recalls his telling her in the 1980s that he had eaten every taco on Pico Boulevard. He became the first restaurant critic to win a Pulitzer for criticism in 2007. She grew up in Cupertino, Calif. Acclaimed Egyptian feminist Nawal Saadawi dies at age 89. The food world is mourning the death of celebrated Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, who passed away on July 21 of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 57. He wanted to make Los Angeles smaller. Jonathan Gold’s sudden death at 57 , mere weeks after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, dealt a concussive blow to Los Angeles, the international food community, his many friends and a legion of devoted readers. In another review, of modernist Culver City restaurant Vespertine, Gold referenced “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Sun Ra, Frank Gehry, Jean-Antoine Watteau and James Turrell. In 2015, after years of hiding behind masks, wineglasses, menus and cereal boxes to protect his identity as a critic, Gold renounced his anonymity. He wooed her with flowers and his mother’s peach pie — Judith Gold was a famously good cook — and the two were married in 1990 at the now-shuttered Campanile on La Brea Avenue. Gold and my wife Linzi Graham on the night we met him last year. Gold quickly became one of the most high-visibility journalists at The Times, headlining numerous annual events for the paper, including the Gold List, a one-night celebration of his top picks; the Taste, a three-day festival held over Labor Day weekend; and Food Bowl, a month-long citywide event that Gold created and spearheaded. That deep context elicited respect, even awe, from chefs around the world. He is an actor, known for Mamma Mia! His father was Jewish and worked as a probation officer, and his mother was a high school teacher and librarian who converted to Judaism. “An ideal candidate has delicious food — that’s a given — but also a sense of purpose, a place within its community and the ability to drive the conversation forward,” he said of how he made his decision. Jonathan E. Gold, Esq. The Maryknoll Sisters nun supported the African nationalist struggle in the country that became Zimbabwe. Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city’s vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has died. In 2007, when he was writing for L.A. Weekly, Gold became the first restaurant critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. A focus on catastrophic injury & wrongful death. The Reform Jewish family uprooted several times but always stayed local, moving from a neighborhood near Inglewood to West L.A. and then to Beverly Hills, where Gold graduated from high school. The chicken survived, and may have come out of the ordeal in better spirits than Mr. Gold, who later said, “The few minutes after an art performance are some of the most depressing in the world.”. What, first Bourdain, and now Jonathan, too? Jonathan Gold was born on July 28, 1960, in South Los Angeles, where he grew up. The judges praised his “zestful, wide-ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater.” He remains the only food critic to have won the prestigious award and was again a finalist in 2011. Jonathan Gold is a Car Accident Attorney in Melville, NY. For a time he saw a therapist for writer’s block until it was mutually agreed that somebody as prolific as Mr. Gold could not be described as blocked. Perhaps to make a point, when it came time to pick his first Restaurant of the Year recipient three months later, Gold chose Locol. Gold was born in Los Angeles into a middle-class family as the eldest of three boys. In a 2006 review of a Beverly Hills steakhouse, he recalled going to the same location to eat patty melts with his mother and to drink warm beer that a sympathetic waitress poured into teacups after hours when he was a young punk rocker, all in the first paragraph. Gold appeared in the Sunset Boulevard restaurant with friends soon after and fell in love with Jitlada’s “ferociously spicy southern Thai dishes.” He routinely named it one of his top restaurant picks in the city and Jitlada became a cult favorite. (1996), Documentary Now! In the process, he made L.A.’s enormousness and diversity feel accessible and became one of the city’s most insightful cultural commentators. “I’m trying to get people to be less afraid of their neighbors.”. “He really was the ambassador for our city.”. Is it merely clever to scent an all-white dish of halibut, parsnip curls and almond with the jet-black aromas of pepper, licorice and coffee? “I’d show up to the studio and everybody’s nervous about being interviewed, so I’d just kind of hang out all day. “If chefs truly can cook better when they know a critic is in the house, then restaurants without an early warning system are at a permanent disadvantage. “He wasn’t looking down his nose at the world, he was looking out from the table and trying to put restaurants, meals and cuisines in context. Four years ago, when Meehan was visiting from New York, he tasked Gold with showing him a new take on fried chicken. In addition to his wife, Buffy, he was survived by their son Luke, along with three children from a previous marriage: Amy, Jeremy, and Mikael (a sound technician). always seemed better when he wrote about it,” the film critic John Powers, a friend of Mr. Gold’s, said. “He’s not just a writer — he was a conduit for the stories of Los Angeles,” Meehan said. He was 57. Janice McLaughlin, nun who was jailed after exposing racial abuses in Rhodesia, dies. A classically trained musician who grew up listening to classical at home, Gold formed the punk rock bands Overman and Tank Burial, playing the cello. He was 57. Kelly was an early-day electronics engineer whose antenna designs contributed to the race to the moon and helped NASA communicate with Mars rovers and search for extraterrestrials. “You’re not going to find cooking like this anywhere else but L.A.”. He was in his element, though, when he championed small, family-run establishments where publicists and wine lists were unheard-of and English was often a second language, if it was spoken at all. 42951491, citing White Cemetery, Christian County, Missouri, USA ; Maintained by DHunt (contributor 46889665) . Ken Kelly, a Black space engineer and L.A. housing advocate, dies at 92. He made a subspecialty of one street in particular. With his suspenders, slightly rumpled button-down shirt, mustache and mop of feathery strawberry blond hair, Gold was an easy-to-spot silhouette around town, peering through the order window of his favorite food trucks and sending chefs into near-panic when he would show up at restaurants unannounced. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Margy Rochlin, a close friend. Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer-Winning Restaurant Critic, Dies In this June 7, 2010 photo, Jonathan Gold, a food critic for L.A. Weekly, poses for a portrait at El Parian Restaurant in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold handles a sea urchin during a Food Bowl event in Manhattan Beach in May. He sought out places that felt emblematic of the city, and the resulting reviews bore a distinctly Los Angeles feel. A critic who imagines himself invisible may find it easy to be cruel.”. But it stunned and devastated his family with whom he shared so many adventures —his wife, Laurie Ochoa; their 23-year old daughter Isabel and 15-year old son Leon. Heralded for sensory prose that often read more like poetry than rote review, Gold penned evocative descriptions of food interwoven with a healthy sprinkling of pop culture references. Nawal Saadawi, an Egyptian feminist whose writings have long stirred controversy in an overwhelming conservative society, has died in Cairo, officials say. His chin was capacious. 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