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Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles

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The mundane becomes art
Excellent writing but wildly unreliable
Still Hungry
Eat and Learn from Jonathan Gold
Jonathan Gold stands alone among LA restaurant reviewers

Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles
Jonathan Gold
Manufacturer: L.A. Weekly Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312267231

Book Description

Jonathan Gold has eaten it all.COUNTER INTELLIGENCE collects over 200 of Gold's best restaurant discoveries--from inexpensive lunch counters you won't find on your own to the perfect undiscovered dish at a beaten-path establishment. He reveals the hidden kitchens where Los Angeles' ethnic communities feed their own, including the best of cuisine from: Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, Burma, Canton, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Middle East, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Thailand, Vietnam and more. (set as bulletted list?)Not to mention the perfectly prepared hamburger and Los Angeles' quintessential hot dog.COUNTER INTELLIGENCE is the richest and most complete guide to eating in Los Angeles. The listings include where to find it and how much you'll pay (in many cases, not very much) with appendices that cover food types and feeding by neighborhood.

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The mundane becomes art.......2007-05-01

Jonathan Gold just won a Pulitzer (4/07) for his food writing, and he deserved it. Read it for the writing, even if you never go out. He makes a Shackburger sound better than it tastes, although no one should go through life without eating at the Shack at least once.

One problem: The book is seven years old, so a few of the places have closed their doors.

Not a guide to LA's best or most famous eateries, but a guide to the best ethnic places in working-class neighborhoods (Sort of. Calling the Shack ethnic stretches the adjective to breaking but most of the restaurants do fit that category.)

Excellent writing but wildly unreliable.......2006-08-15

Be forewarned: Jonathan Gold's culinary prose is compelling reading, but any attempts to use this as an actual guidebook for restaurants in Los Angeles should be heavily researched first. Perhaps I just have extraordinarily bad luck, but each time I've tried to visit one of the restaurants, something's gone wrong. Aladdin Falafel (p. 2) no longer exists, though its sign is still up there on the corner mini-mall placard. India's Tandoori (p. 137) no longer serves Tandoori pizza, so temptingly describe in Rich's essay. Gagnier's Creole Kitchen (p. 109) in Santa Monica disappeared years ago. With that said, I would still recommend the book as a fun read for those who enjoy learning more about the culinary diversity available in Los Angeles.

Still Hungry .......2006-07-31

Some key spots were missing and that's a shame, but overall a good buy

Eat and Learn from Jonathan Gold.......2006-05-07

Jonathan Gold is the "go to" guy to learn more about food! And the cool thing is, he is even kind enough to donate his time and expertise to those interested in supporting a cause and getting the chance to meet with him. EAT WITH JONATHAN GOLD at an L.A. restaurant that he is researching! Bid on it at [...] -- BEFORE May 16, 2006. You'll get a chance to meet this food critic and great writer of culinary explorations AND support a great cause! Enjoy the book and enjoy the chance to meet him!

Jonathan Gold stands alone among LA restaurant reviewers.......2006-03-03

For all the griping about how Gold feeds hipsters just enough information to be dangerous, the fact of the matter is that this man is an impresario. No one else -- NO ONE -- writes restaurant reviews with the sort of artistry that Gold does. Yet he is accessible to the everyman as much as the hipsters. Gold's column in the LA Weekly (free newspaper) has reviewed everything from Peruvian sushi dives to $5 ramen houses to Providence, a $50-a-dish seafood experience that may be the finest restaurant in Los Angeles at the moment. I wouldn't know -- I learned from Gold that several lifetimes' worth of ethnic food can be had in the San Gabriel valley.

Placing a tick mark next to yet another restaurant in the book is always satisfying, even if it sometimes is accompanied by "went out of business" or "never eat here again". Let's face it, it's more fun to gamble in Vegas than to buy a bunch of T-bills. (Having Gold's book in your glove compartment is not unlike having Raymond Babbit along for the ride, incidentally.)

Flaming Sichuan goose intestines? Check. Armenian sausages in grape molasses, sumac and cinnamon? Check. 7 courses of beef? Snake salad? Dinosaur-sized beef ribs in incendiary sauce? Check, check, and check again! Several times it has been mentioned by other reviewers that the book is badly in need of an update. This is true, however the LA weekly's Food section (www.laweekly.com/eat+drink/) has an archive of Gold's many Counter Intelligence columns, and the attentive reader will quickly pick up many of the changes (JZY no longer exists, but the excellent Lu Din Gee now operates in the same location). By and large, however, the restaurants that Gold chooses to include not only have survived, but provide an excellent base from which to branch out and explore the city's many ethnic restaurants.

If you live in Los Angeles, and you don't have a copy of this book, you are missing out on one of the world's great foodie cities.

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Counter Intelligence: Where To Eat In The Real Los Angeles
Jonathan Gold
Manufacturer: L.A. Weekly Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTH0G4

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