LA’s Dirty Noodle Eater got a nod from Anthony Bourdain in today’s New York Times, where in an overview of the decade we’re leaving the traveling tv chef writes “The brilliant, pioneering work of LA Weekly’s Jonathan Gold was honored with a Pulitzer Prize, the first time for a food writer — and this, surely, was a Very Important Moment…” Being ever critical implies selectivity in our book. A man who will eat any god damn thing is a novelty, not a connoisseur.

King Kong vs. Moby Dick (detail) by Michael X. Rose