18 Quotes by Jonathan Gold

When it's done properly, taco should be a verb.

In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.

When it’s done properly, taco should be a verb.

It’s funny how everyone has a bizarre relationship with Google. The knowledge is there, but no one knows how to use it right.

In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago, in that eating has become incredibly political. And just as the street has always dictated fashions on music and other things, it’s starting to happen that way in food.

Everybody talks about the internet being the ultimate repository of cooking knowledge. But it’s not. It sucks.

As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something – even if it’s something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they’ll hate it.

I write mostly positive reviews. I don’t write about places that don’t interest me.

It means something, I think, when Thai people learn how to cook Vietnamese noodles for Hong Kongborn teenagers, and as big a fan as I am of authenticity, it probably means something good.