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The Sporkful

Update: Inside The Turmoil At Bon Appétit

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

When the spotlight goes away… In the wake of allegations about systemic racism at Bon Appétit, people of color there were hopeful things would change. Nearly two months later, are they changing? How are Bon Appétit and its parent company, Condé Nast, dealing with this turmoil — employees speaking out, a refusal to produce videos until negotiations are settled, and an internal investigation into pay equity? We spoke with six people at BA, all of whom asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, to find out. After the headline-grabbing scandal comes the time when people have to make real change. Those in power have to act. UPDATE: We published this episode Monday morning, August 3rd. On Thursday, three stars of the BA Test Kitchen— Priya Krishna, Rick Martinez, and Sohla El-Waylly—announced that they would no longer be participating in videos for Bon Appétit. Get 500+ more great Sporkful episodes from our catalog and lots of other Stitcher goodness when you sign up for Stitcher Premium: www.StitcherPremium.com/Sporkful (promo code: SPORKFUL). Transcript available at www.sporkful.com.

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0:00.0

I just got an email from

0:03.8

I had asked for some kind of a statement like can you speak publicly?

0:08.0

Can you go on the record to say something about what's going on of on

0:11.0

petite and the response is not right now.

0:15.2

So nothing.

0:16.2

Andrei, two of you talk to.

0:18.0

So I talked to

0:19.3

They definitely were not going to talk in the record.

0:22.8

Emma, who have you talked to?

0:24.2

So so far I've been talking with

0:27.5

and I also heard back from

0:30.0

This is sporkful producers Emma Morgan Stern and Andrei Sohara with me during a production meeting for this episode.

0:36.0

They'll be riding shotgun with me throughout.

0:38.2

This is an update on our show about the recent reckoning at Bon Appétit.

0:41.7

We know there's a lot going on behind the scenes there right now.

0:45.0

The reason for those bleeps?

0:46.6

We can't share who we've been talking to because no one would talk to us on the record.

0:50.8

Weeks ago in this story broke, people from B.A. talk to us, they tweeted, they posted on Instagram.

0:56.7

So what's changed?

0:58.3

Today in the show we're going to find out.

1:06.9

This is the sporkful.

1:08.0

It's not for foodies, it's for eaters.

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