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City of Gold
In this richly penetrating documentary odyssey, Pulitzer Prize-winning
food critic Jonathan Gold shows us a Los Angeles where ethnic cooking is
a kaleidoscopic portal to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the
soul of America. Combing through colorful neighborhoods in his green
pickup truck, Gold is sniffing out his next strip-mall discovery-whether
Oaxacan grasshopper soup, hand-cut tonkotsu ramen, or a particularly
unctuous pad see ew. As piping-hot platters are served up, so are
stories of immigrants whose secret family recipes are like sacred
offerings pledged for the opportunity to build their American Dream.
With eternal curiosity, razor-sharp intellect, and existential longing,
Gold is a culinary geographer taking us where no critic has gone before.
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