The Reply All Bon Appetit story is the story of so many media orgs over the past decade told with characters we know from Youtube
(Sorry to imply live radio is a test kitchen and podcasting is a trendy magazine)
The first ep tells the story of Yewande Komolafe and Sue Li, who started in the (non glamorous, pre-video) test kitchen in the early 2010s
'And so they would both come to this new Bon Appetit, as temps—So below entry level, but that was fine. Because this was gonna be the start of a better life.'
The 'original sin' of all-white management without food experience, when Adam Rapoport had the chance to build an entire team from scratch.
The women of colour, on temp contracts, trying to divine what gets you a byline
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