Would you like a job where you got paid to eat? What if that job meant eating in Thai and Uzbek and Iranian and Salvadoran and Korean restaurants – all in one night? That's what Jonathan Gold does. He's a journalist who writes about food and restaurants for the Los Angeles Times newspaper. As the paper's food critic, Mr. Gold eats meals in restaurants and then tells readers what he thinks of the food and the restaurant itself. Often, he'll go to a restaurant three to five different times before he decides what he wants to say in his column. What he says about a restaurant and the meals he ate can be very important to that business and to his enthusiastic readers. It's not an easy job – he usually goes to six or seven places in one night and sometimes, he brings his two kids with him to taste-test. His "territory" is enormous because the greater Los Angeles area includes about 34,000 square miles or almost 88,000 square kilometers! That's room for a lot of restaurants, and because there are so many, he can review about 300 to 500 different eating places a year. Mr. Gold is really interested in the area's many immigrant communities and the different ways they prepare food. He's not just eating at the fancy posh places but also at the small diners, food stands, and tiny rooms where people are cooking their native dishes and creating new variations of traditional meals. "You want these guys to succeed," he says in City of Gold, a 2015 documentary about his work. He's happy to make readers as aware of the small one-family restaurants as those fancy and expensive ones. Lots of people across the United States read his food columns. In 2007, he was the first food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize, a prestigious American journalism award. And in City of Gold, people will get to see him as he "discovers the world, one meal at a time." Mason interviews Jonathan Gold, food critic for the Los Angeles Times, at Guelaguetza Restaurant in Los Angeles.