Why Jonathan Gold Mattered So Much

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This past weekend, Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold died at the age of 57. Robert Sietsema, Peter Meehan, and Meghan McCarron share some stories and discuss the legacy of the legendary food writer. Hosted by: Amanda Kludt and Daniel Geneen. Sign up for Amanda Kludt’s newsletter here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Eater-Uppsel podcast from the Vox Media Podcast network.
0:09.1	Over the weekend Jonathan Gold passed.
0:11.8	Jonathan was
0:13.0	a legendary Los Angeles-based food critic, a Pulitzer winning writer,
0:16.7	widely credited with being one of the people
0:20.2	who was telling people to go eat at restaurants that were not just the fancy
0:24.4	restaurants in their city and go explore other populations and communities
0:28.7	through their food. Today... Even just trying new things. Even just trying new things.
0:33.7	Today I am joined by one of Jonathan's contemporaries,
0:36.8	our very own Robert Sitzma, who you may know from the podcast,
0:40.5	who is our, and all of his writing, who is our our senior critic and whose career at least in the later stages
0:50.0	writing about these restaurants in a way resembles Jonathan's is that fair to say?
0:55.0	It's certainly fair to say yeah he had a big influence on me.
0:57.6	So Robert's going to tell us a little bit about their relationship what it was like
1:00.9	when Jonathan moved to New York.
1:03.0	Peter Mehan, who was the editor of the now deceased Lucky Peach,
1:07.0	is going to call in and Robert Peter and Jonathan took a legendary trip to Kansas City one time and Peter's going to talk to us
1:15.4	about his relationship with Jonathan and then our own Megan McCarran is going to call in
1:19.4	talk about what Jonathan meant to her but you know know we're just gonna have some have some fun
1:24.4	share some memories and explain why it is so important for you to know who Jonathan Gold
1:31.4	was and how everything he did is so impactful in the world, the landscape
1:38.4	today.
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