The First Restaurant Critic of Color at the L.A. Times
Jacquelyn Ardam profiles Patricia Escárcega, the first restaurant critic of color at the Los Angeles Times.
Jacquelyn Ardam is the author of Avidly Reads Poetry (NYU Press, 2022) and the assistant director of the Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UCLA. Her writing on literature, art, and culture has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Bookforum, LitHub, Hyperallergic, Public Books, and The Toast, as well as in academic journals.
Jacquelyn Ardam profiles Patricia Escárcega, the first restaurant critic of color at the Los Angeles Times.
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