Jonathan Gold’s Counter Intelligence is one of my all time favorite books. Written in 2000, the book collects food reviews, essays and musings of Los Angeles eateries much like this blog captures my random thoughts (except it isn’t crappy). I now have a plan to live it!
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This book had a cherished place on my nightstand when i first bought it several years ago. It’s food porn at its best, hardcore descriptions of tacos, noodles and foofy foamy food. Many nights I closed my eyes, preparing to dream about Al Pastor, offal and weird ass sandwiches. it’s like Penthouse letters with gravy and tortillas.
The book ended up living in the backseat floorboards of my pos car. The book became battered and worn, stepped on, written in and stained with drippings of spilled liquids and something that smells like bad toffee.
Dramatization
However, out of the over two hundred listings in the book, i probably only went to about 10% of the places. Most of the places i went to in the book are the more well known locations in LA and the book is so much more than that. To remedy that and have decided to try to eat my way through the book, in alphabetical order and post stuff about it. i got nothing better to do so why the hell not.
I am sure other people are doing that as well somewhere, but i am just too lazy to look it up.
This is absolutely nothing like this.
Why do this?
To pay homage to J.Gold the god
I’m bored. it’s something to do.
I like eating. I will eat anything (except maybe puppy or infant)
This will really expand my experience of LA.
I have health insurance
Rules:
Must do the restaurants in order of the book.
Cannot skip any restaurants unless it no longer exists.
In the following cases, I am allowed to put a restaurant on “hold” meaning I can skip temporarily and allowed to advance if:
The place is too exclusive or prohibitively expensive.
The place is too dangerous (i.e. criminals or poltergeists)
I will make an effort to get what was written about in the entry.
I will be honest in my assessment.
I can change any of the above rules.
This is not a race or competition. I am just using the book as a guide to opening up my eating and exploring horizons.
It starts….soon. (I am a huge procrastinator and get easily distracted. Ooh what is this Human Centipede?)
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good luck and the link to buy the book doesnt work and it is like Julie and Julia!
link works now. Buy the book now. Nothing like that movie.
I hope this movie turns out better. I could only watch the first 10 min. of that other moive