Comforting as a SnuggieIn a blog post at the Web site of our alt-weekly sis LA Weekly, food critic Jonathan Gold does the equivalent of grinding out a cigarette in the Bay Area's beloved burrito:
"Bay Area residents tend to have peculiar ideas about burritos, which they regard as monstrous things wrapped in tinfoil, and filled with what would seem to be the contents of an entire margarita-mill dinner, including grilled meat, rice, beans, guacamole, tomatoes, salsa, sour cream, orange cheese, and
Burritophile founders DanJohnson and Cate Czerwinski: Stop the hateDan Johnson knows a thing or two about burrito smackdowns. Since he co-founded the fan site Burritophile in 2005, Johnson has witnessed four or five fights he calls "burrito flame wars": heated tussles between Northern and Southern Californians over whose style of burrito rocks harder.
Johnson suggested that LA Weekly critic Jonathan Gold's disparaging remarks earlier today about bulky Bay Area-style burritos were more or less a
Courtesy of AJ, via YelpI don't happen to be a burrito girl.
I like my carnitas, lengua, or cabeza as unobscured as possible by the burrito's inevitable rice / beans / lettuce / guacamole / sour cream onslaught, so I tend to order small soft tacos, which I make even smaller by dividing the contents evenly between the two tortillas they're served on, adorned only by chopped onion and cilantro. El Tonayense does 'em just great, as far as I'm concerned.
But Jonathan Gold's recent wacky scree
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You asked for it: Grub Street New York published its Grub Report earlier this week. Think of it as a Twitpic of the state of the nation's restaurants, captured, collectively, by about a dozen critics. Anthony Bourdain, Jonathan Gold, Gael Greene, Ed Levine, Alan Richman -- some majorly serious bros. Among them is Michael Nagrant of the online mag Hungry. Now, while answers to some mighty predictable questions (When and how will fine dining rebound
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