The first episode of our podcast is out now featuring Pulitzer Prize winning food writer Jonathan Gold. It’s brilliantly summed up by Grub Street:
Gold, a trained cellist who spent his academic career writing “terrifically elegant string quartets,” drops a few glorious f-bombs detailing the days when he played avant-garde punk and writing about hip-hop and metal, as well as his feelings on The Lakers, K-DAY, Eazy-Mutherfuckin’-E (whose mom is apparently a Montessori teacher), Thai stick, Rene Redzepi, the decline of Metallica, eating at Junior’s with Dr. Dre, L.A.’s early eighties indie hip-hop scene, being embedded while Doggystyle was recorded, his ensuing “blood” feud with Death Row, what’s behind kiwi vinaigrette, and perpetually being introduced with the title “Pulitzer Prize-winning,” which could be a lot worse. Whew! Have a listen.
Listen to it here via Soundcloud, or download it on iTunes
OUR PODCAST OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES TODAY!
Asked Pulitzer Prize winning food writer Jonathan Gold if he would be the first guest on the Food is the New Rock podcast, and he responded with the greatest email I’ve ever gotten in my life…
Hey,
Sure, I guess. As long as you understand that with a few exceptions, my knowledge of pop pretty much slammed shut in late ‘96, around the time of the death of Tupac. I can talk with Talmudic subtlety about the 20 years before that, when I played in punk bands, ran clubs, wrote about rap, hard rock and what was then called “electronica” for the L.A. Times, Spin and Rolling Stone, and played the Boswell to Snoop Dogg’s Samuel Johnson - but at the point when all roads led to Britney Spears, Metallica became a boogie band and hip-hop violence stopped being a cartoon, it was time for me to exit, stage left. Ever gotten stinkeye from Suge Knight? You would have changed professions too.
jg
Want to hear about that? Of course you do.
Episode 1 of the Food is the New Rock Podcast featuring Jonathan Gold is now available on iTunes and Soundcloud.
