Bon Appetit, whose top editor resigned Monday after a staff revolt over an offensive photo and longstanding issues involving treatment of people of color, said Wednesday that our mastheads have been far too white for far too long and promised major changes at the magazine.
The announcement came in an unsigned statement attributed to staff at both Bon Appetit and Epicurious, a foodie web site.
Both are owned by luxury magazine publisher Conde Nast, whose CEO, Roger Lynch, issued his own statement of support for the effort.
The staff statement called Bon Appetit white-centric and said it frequently marginalized non-white stories" as not newsworthy or trendy.
A photographer, Alex Lau, said he left Bon Appetit in part because when he felt that changes he and other staffers of color pushed for were ignored.