Gold writes about the kinds of dive restaurants and little ethnic food joints that traditionally haven't been the focus of serious food writing. In 2007 he was the first food critic to ever win the Pulitzer Prize.
What happens when a chicken crosses the thin yellow line that divides the animals we eat from the animals we keep as pets. Jonathan Gold, food writer for Gourmet magazine, tells how he accidentally came to adopt a chicken, and what happened to his opinion of chickens afterwards.