Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and big-time foodie Jonathan Gold recommends 99 things to eat in LA before you die. His column “Counter Intelligence” in the LA weekly has enlightened LA foodies of Los Angeles’ vast array of ethnic neighborhoods and their restaurants. Jonathan Gold is definitely a good thing for LA, especially since this city has turned into a transplant mecca, many of them who won’t leave their insular neighborhoods (especially westsiders). As a native Angeleno, my curiosity about Mr. Gold’s recommendations has finally got the best of me and I am determined to try all 99 things that he thinks we should eat before we die.

Jonathan Gold states about Huckleberry’s Maple-Bacon Biscuits: They have maple. And bacon. They’re reasonably flaky, with a deftness one doesn’t often see in things of this sort. Zoe Nathan is stepping up as the pastry chef of her generation in Los Angeles, coming out of a time and place where every apple tart was rustic, every croissant unglazed, every fruit from the farmers market, every pastry dashed with an appropriate lick of salt. And did I mention the bacon?”

My thoughts: These were less like biscuits and more like scones. The texture was crumbly yet dense with barely a hint of bacon. I expected the biscuit to taste more like something than nothing. Definitely disappointed, wouldn’t rush back to get more and did I mention, where’s the bacon? Did I need to eat this before I died? No. On another note, the sample of coffee cake I tried was moist and delicious. The other pastries, croissants and coffee cakes looked yummy. I bought a loaf of ciabatta that you need to eat before you die.