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2002 Stories by Jonathan Gold

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  • Ask Mr. Gold

    published December 19, 2002

    Q: I just got back from Cairo, where I tried several versions of a sour green soup called miloukia. Ever run across this in... More >>

  • Ask Mr. Gold

    published December 12, 2002

    Q: Where have you been going for dim sum lately? —Y. Ramirez, Silver Lake A:... More >>

  • Ask Mr. Gold

    published December 5, 2002

    Q: I am trying to find a nice restaurant in Los Angeles that serves caviar, and am having a tough time of it. My husband’s birthday is comin... More >>

  • Ask Mr. Gold

    published November 28, 2002

    Q: I recently ate wonderful carne seca in Tucson, but have looked for the dish in vain in Los Angeles. Have you found any... More >>

  • Ask Mr. Gold

    published November 21, 2002

    Q:Do you know any Chinese restaurants in L.A. that serve bitter melon (ku gua)? It's the weirdest-looking of all vegetables and, as the name... More >>

  • Ask Mr. Gold

    published November 14, 2002

    Q: I’ve been to Yabu and the little noodle shop in the Mitsuya supermarket on Centinela at Venice Boulevard, but I am still in... More >>

  • Ask Mr. Gold

    published November 7, 2002

    Question:It’s Halloween today — got any Faustian bargains? Answer: Chipotle Mexican Grill is a newish mega-chain of... More >>

  • Ask Mr. Gold

    published October 31, 2002

    Question: Some of us are vegetarians who go to a wide variety of restaurants, because we live in the real world with non-vegetarian friends.... More >>

  • Ask Mr. Gold

    published October 24, 2002

    Question: The Westside has plenty of places to get breakfast, but they’re pretty fancy, with fancy prices. My family is looking... More >>

  • The Deli Counter

    published October 24, 2002

    Photo by Anne Fishbein AFTER EXPLORING THE DELIS OF NEW YORK, CHICAGO AND OTHER U.S. cities, Gourmet magazine restaurant critic and... More >>

  • Ask Mr. Gold

    published October 17, 2002

    Question: I am faced with the unexpected arrival of friends who have asked me, an insular San Fernando Valley resident, to... More >>

  • Driving While Hungry

    published July 25, 2002

    Photos by Anne Fishbein THE CARHOP IS DEFUNCT. THE LAST DRIVE-IN THEATER has been shuttered. The drive-in church in Garden Grove brought... More >>

  • Chile Scenes of Summer

    published June 27, 2002

    Chung King‘s fried chicken with hot peppers is the red of silk pajamas, the red of firecrackers, the red of the Chinese flag, a knoll of... More >>

  • Original Sinaloa

    published June 13, 2002

    When executed properly, machaca, a sort of red-brown heap of fried beef jerky, is one of the great dried-beef dishes of the world, an intense... More >>

  • Pho West, Young Man

    published May 30, 2002

    In some parts of Los Angeles, Vietnamese noodle shops are as thick on the ground here as they are in Hanoi, and a bowl of pho, the northern... More >>

  • Silver Clouds

    published May 30, 2002

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  • O Brodard, Where Art Thou?

    published May 9, 2002

    San Gabriel may be the center of Shanghainese cooking in the Los Angeles area, and Monterey Park the location of grand Cantonese restaurants.... More >>

  • A Neighborhood Just West of Downtown

    published May 2, 2002

    May 7, 1992 -- It is 8 o’clock, and the light has started to fade as I sit on the floor of my apartment staring at the spot where the rain no... More >>

  • Changing Lanes

    published April 25, 2002

    Photo by Anne Fishbein The first time I visited Mr. T’s Bowl was probably sometime back in the earliest ’90s, on a warm Saturday... More >>

  • Eat, Like, a Pig

    published April 11, 2002

    Even for Koreatown, L.A. Toad was a mysterious restaurant, a Seoul-style snack shop whose untranslated menu was written on the chopstick... More >>

  • Highway 6 Revisited

    published March 28, 2002

    A 10-minute taxi ride from downtown Phnom Penh, out past the colonial mansions of the international district and over the squat Japanese... More >>

  • The 17th Level

    published March 28, 2002

    If you grew up in Los Angeles, at least part of your life probably revolved around Farmers Market, the intimate expanse of fruit stalls between... More >>

  • Next Stop, Green Village

    published March 14, 2002

    Braised meats are doing better box office than even Russell Crowe at the moment, from the tripe at Osteria Angelini to the veal cheeks at... More >>

  • Hey, Babita

    published February 28, 2002

    A decade or so ago, when culture- page editors were still trying to come to that part of Los Angeles that didn’t happen to be contiguous... More >>

  • Eat, Memory

    published February 7, 2002

    A couple of Januarys ago, my wife brought a bag of blobby, yellow fruit home to the Manhattan apartment where we were then living, cradling the... More >>

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