This is shocking and terrible. I never get to LA, but read JGs writing all the time, I’m on his email list, and listen to him on podcasts. He was a great great writer. Just an encyclopedic mind. Crap.
He was a food critic like no other. His writing had soul, passion, and erudition, which remains unsurpassed in my opinion. Though he could have used his brilliance to write novels or poetry, he chose food for which I’ll be ever grateful.
I had no idea he was ill. This is another guy-punch coming so soon after Anthony Bourdain’s death.
Awesome write up about him in the LA Times. He was a “ cellist with a background in composition and conducting, a defender of the worst heavy metal bands L.A. had to offer and often credited, or blamed, for inventing the term “gangsta rap” ?!?
Gold was a visionary — a writer’s writer and a food lover’s food lover. He was also a writer and food lover for everyone else. I am so sad.