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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices