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

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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