Jonathan Gold drops anonymous restaurant critic mask

L.A. Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold bares it all, no longer pretends that everyone doesn't already know what he looks like.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 24, 2015
I have posed for pictures shrouded in gauze, wearing a dinosaur mask and shaded into a Hitchcockian silhouette. My face has been obscured by giant wineglasses, beer steins, menus, stacked dim sum steamers, Wheaties boxes, a Thomas the Tank Engine...
The full article can be read on the Los Angeles Times website.

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