The call for the resignation of Bon Appétit’s old editor, Adam Rapoport, reached a boiling point after a photo appeared showing him in brown.
A freelance writer for Condé Nast’s foodie magazine on Monday dug up and posted a 2013 photo, originally posted on Instagram by Rapoport’s wife, Simone Shubuck, who showed the couple who appeared in brown because of Halloween costumes that were clearly visible.
The picture, which has since been taken down from Shubuck’s account, displays the words “me and papi” and the hashtag “boricua.”
Neither Condé Nast nor Rapoport responded to requests for comment.
Allegations arose soon after that the title Condé Nast’s food discriminated against paid minorities.
Sohla El-Waylly, a chef and restaurant owner who was hired last year as an assistant editor at Bon Appétit, accused on Instagram that only white editors are paid to appear in videos for the BA Test Kitchen video series. He said he was hired with a salary of $ 50,000 to “help white editors with far less experience than me.”
“I was pushed in front of the video as a display of diversity,” he wrote. “In fact, currently only white editors are paid for their video appearance. There are no colored people who get compensation for their appearance. “
Later that day, former Bon Appétit staff photographer Alex Lau voiced his concern about workplace culture brought about by Rapoport via Twitter. He wrote that he left the magazine “for various reasons, but one of the main reasons was that the white leadership refused to make the changes that my BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, People of Color] My colleagues and I constantly encourage me. “
He continued, “when I asked ‘why do we take food all over the world, but haven’t touched the entire African continent?’, Their response: ‘oh you know, the recipe is complicated, and readers might not want to make food. “
The problem starts at the top of Condé Nast, which has “Vogue,” “Vanity Fair,” “The New Yorker” and “GQ,” he said, referring to CEO Roger Moore and Vogue’s artistic director and editor Anna Wintour.
He added: “This is the last problem. blame roger moore, blame and others, blame everyone in the company that you have never heard of. they are responsible for creating this culture. “
The counterattack against Rapoport and Bon Appetit continued on Monday when the magazine posted an article about black-owned restaurants run by the city, which according to the article was “a practical way, actions that could be taken to stand in solidarity with the skin community. black now, and always. “
