Hannah Goldfield on finding her way into food & restaurant criticism.

Lit Up

This week, we welcome New York City food critic and writer Hannah Goldfield to Lit Up! Angela and Hannah discuss what makes a restaurant experience special, how Hannah captures New York City's shifting moods through the lens of food for The New Yorker, early influences that inspired Hannah to pursue a career in food criticism, quintessential food writers, and the pleasures of reading non-fiction on topics she doesn't devote her time to thinking and writing about. Hannah's recommendations: Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles by the late Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jeffrey Steingarten's food writing in Vogue the late writer Laurie Colwin, author of Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media by Darrell Hartman Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv Genius Recipes Cookbook by Kristen Miglore via Food52 See you in two weeks!
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