City of Gold
Discover the world. One meal at a time.
Directed by Laura Gabbert
A warm, visually rich documentary that uses food as a lens to reveal hidden beauty, cultural depth, and human connection in an often-dismissed city.
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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