City of Gold
As the unabashed cradle of Hollywood superficiality and smoggy urban sprawl, Los Angeles has long been condemned as a cultural wasteland. In the richly penetrating documentary odyssey City of Gold, Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold shows us another Los Angeles, where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic portal to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America.
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Genre: Biography, Documentary
Director: Laura Gabbert
Actors: Allen Salkin, Andrew Zimmern, Calvin Trillin, David Chang, Garth Trinidad, Jonathan Gold, Ludo Lefebvre, Peter Meehan, Robert Sietsema, Roy Choi, Ruth Reichl
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