City of Gold

A love letter to the foodie culture of Los Angeles, “City of Gold” vocalises some very interesting opinions through the culinary journey of Pulitzer winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold. More specifically, it proves – beyond a shadow of a doubt – that you can never really claim to know your city if you don’t take an in-depth look at what the people are eating. And that includes every single immigrant and their food truck, a movement that has changed the face of the City of Angels foever. Gold’s passion for good food brought him face to face with gang violence, poverty, petty crime and the vast economic inequalities that underpin and in some ways facilitate the city’s culinary splendor. The end result is nothing less than a drool-worthy documentary broadly built on the idea that by eating like one’s neighbor, they become less foreign, which creates greater possibilities for communal harmony and mutual understanding.