![]() ![]() ![]() To Eric Eddings and Brittany Luse, who were Pinnamaneni’s colleagues at the podcast company Gimlet Media from 2015 to 2020, all of this sounded familiar - a little too familiar. Though the miniseries was about one glossy Condé Nast publication, it served as a window into all manner of other workplaces. The first two episodes seemed to resonate with a wide swath of listeners ( including me). In interviews with Pinnamaneni, a longtime Reply All senior staffer, current and former Bon Appétit employees - all of whom were individuals of color - were asked to be vulnerable, and in some cases, to relive hard experiences they had not yet fully processed: entry-level employees and temps who had been made to feel like second-class citizens more senior staffers of color who felt complicit in supporting a troubling culture. That sin, as laid out by series host Sruthi Pinnamaneni, was the concentration of power among the same kinds of people - typically white, of the same class, and of the same tastes - at the expense of everyone else. Reply All’s four-part series “ The Test Kitchen,” on the allegedly toxic and racist workplace culture at Bon Appétit, begins with a simple thesis: that the magazine’s problems were all borne out of one original sin. ![]()
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