Jonathan Gold, Ruth Reichl and Others on the State of Food Journalism

Up until Jonathan Gold in 2007, no food critic had ever won the Pulitzer Prize. Now, thanks to Gold, Michael Pollan and the dawn of Yelp, food writing has taken on a whole new importance in the cultural consciousness. Poynter’s Dawn Fallik put together a series of interviews with prominent food editors and writers on the emerging impact of food writing.

Here’s Gold discussing, presumably, Yelp–although he doesn’t say it by name.

The online food world runs the gamut.

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