There's this old internet fable about a duck who liked milkshakes.

Everyone loved the milkshake duck until it turned out to be racist.

The moral of the story is that everything online either turns to caca, or we learn it always was.

The latest example we submit is the so-called food media,

or at least its most prominent avatar.

Adam Rappaport, the editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit Magazine,

has resigned amid questions about equality within the company.

This after several employees with Bon Appetit spoke out

saying the magazine is not inclusive and does not treat minorities equally.

Adam Rappaport departed the scene last Monday after weeks of furious attention to systemic racial inequality nationwide.

And after a month of similar scrutiny within the food media,

beginning last month, with the tumble of viral recipe author Alison Roman.

It was around then that technology and culture writer Navita Long wrote an essay for eater called

Stewed Awakening, Alice in Roman, Bon Appetit, and the Global Pantry

Problem. We asked him to describe the impact of Bon Appetit in the before times.

So about a decade ago, Bon Appetit was a slightly stuffy food magazine, but over the last few years, Bon Appetit was a slightly stuffy food magazine.

But over the last few years, Bon Appetit

has developed a YouTube channel.

Hey, guys, this is Carla.

I'm here in the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen today.

Hey, guys, it's alive.

We're going to be making grove locks or locks.

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