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.

Director: Laura Gabbert

Cast: Jonathan Gold, Lauren Ochoa, David Chang, Ludovic Lefebvre, Ruth Reichl, Roy Choi, Peter Meehan

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