Jonathan Gold is the current Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic for The Los Angeles Times, and former restaurant critics for LA Weekly and Gourmet magazine. He specializes in finding great ethnic cuisine not in the fancy, upscale restaurants, but hole-in-the-wall establishments like those tucked away in strip malls, out in food trucks, or push carts in on sidewalks and public parking lots. Cruising around in his well-used pickup, his gift for seeking out the hidden gems in and around the Los Angeles area is only equaled by the beauty and expressiveness he brings to his writing. One rave review from Gold will have struggling local eateries busy the next day, and for months, if not years, beyond. Although it's a film about Gold, it's really a celebration of Los Angeles, specifically the Los Angeles that Gold sees in all its many facets through his own eyes, and his own palate, transcribed into his own words. If you don't really care for Los Angeles, with its various blocks full of nondescript shops in ethnic parts of the city you don't really understand the culture of, his writing makes you take a second look. You'll probably come to embrace all of the diversity and many flavors of the vast melting pot in a way that makes you a Los Angelino through and through.
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