Jonathan Gold - Awards & Nominations

Profession	Journalist, Food critic, Critic
Jonathan Gold is a food critic who currently writes for the Los Angeles Times and has previously written for LA Weekly and Gourmet. In 2007 he became the first food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize. He is also a regular on KCRW's Good Food radio program. Gold often chooses small, ethnic restaurants for his reviews, although he covers all types of cuisine. His articles have been collected in the book, Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles. Gold started out at the LA Weekly in 1982 as a proofreader while he was studying art and music at UCLA, and by the mid-1980s became one of the paperâ€™s most popular writers. He was music editor for the Weekly in the 1980s, and held a number of other positions with the paper. With the encouragement of Weekly founder Jay Levin, he started his Counter Intelligence column in 1986 as a way of exploring Los Angelesâ€™ ethnic neighborhoods, places that often go underreported in other papers. He took the column to the Los Angeles Times from 1990 to 1996, while also writing reviews of high-end places for California and Los Angeles magazines, as well as music stories for Blender, Spin, Rolling Stone, and Details. In 1999, he left Los Angeles to become Gourmet's New York restaurant critic, and was the first food writer to be honored as a National Magazine Award finalist in criticism by the American Society of Magazine Editors. In 2001, he moved back to Los Angeles, where he revived Counter Intelligence for the Weekly while continuing to write for Gourmet. In 2012, he returned to the L.A. Times.

Awards by Jonathan Gold

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jonathan Gold.

2011

James Beard MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award

Honored for : A Movable Beast

(LA Weekly)

James Beard Foundation Award for Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America

Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism	For his delightful, authoritative restaurant reviews, escorting readers through a city\u2019s diverse food culture.
James Beard Foundation Award for Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America
James Beard Award for Food-Related Feature	A Movable Beast
James Beard MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award	A Movable Beast LA Weekly

2010

James Beard Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award

Honored for : Sauced, Hot Birria, Cold Cerveza, Hare Today

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
James Beard Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award	Sauced","Hot Birria, Cold Cerveza","Hare Today
James Beard Award for Writing on Spirits, Wine or Beer	The New Cocktailians

2009

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
James Beard Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award	Octavio Becerra's Fine Palate","A Proper Brasserie: Alain Giraud's Anisette","Pho Town: Noodle Stories From South El Monte

2007

Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

(For his zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater.)

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism	For his zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater.

2006

James Beard Award for Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique

Honored for : Great Balls Of Rice, Raw Power, The Revolutionary

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique	Great Balls Of Rice","Raw Power","The Revolutionary

2005

James Beard Award for Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique

Honored for : Beyond Urban Rustic, Post-Puck Generation \u2013 Cooking in the Age of Anxiety, Koreatown\u2019s Top 40

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique	Beyond Urban Rustic","Post-Puck Generation \u2013 Cooking in the Age of Anxiety","Koreatown\u2019s Top 40

2002

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Magazine Restaurant Review or Critique	Foam Follows Function","Ticket to the World","The Book of Daniel Gourmet

2001

James Beard Award for Magazine Restaurant Review or Critique

(Gourmet)

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Magazine Restaurant Review or Critique	Gourmet

2000

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Magazine Restaurant Review or Critique

1999

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Newspaper Restaurant Review or Critique	L.A. Weekly

1996

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Magazine Restaurant Review or Critique

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