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        <title><![CDATA[Alison Roman chimes in on the Bon Appétit shakeup]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alison Roman is lending her voice in support of Bon Appétit BIPOC staffers, weeks after <strong>making controversial comments</strong> about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo.</p><p>The 34-year-old food columnist, who used to work for Bon Appétit, spoke up against the company&#8217;s biases and defended her former colleagues after Adam Rapoport, the magazine&#8217;s editor-in-chief, <strong>resigned over a brownface photo. </strong></p><p>&#8220;I stand in solidarity with my former BIPOC coworkers and food media colleagues at Bon Appetit,&#8221; Roman wrote on her Instagram story on Thursday. &#8220;The wage disparity at BA and across all of Condé Nast is real. The toxic racism, sexism, elitism and classism are also VERY REAL.&#8221;</p><p>The &#8220;Nothing Fancy&#8221; author explained that while she has benefited from the system as a white woman, she also &#8220;left for a reason.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;The employees past and present who have been most affected by the last few years are doing the incredibly hard, brave work by speaking out and I stand with them,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They work hard as hell and deserve so much better.&#8221;</p><p>Roman was a senior food editor at Bon Appétit before leaving to work at Buzzfeed in 2015. She then went on to become a food columnist for the New York Times but is on temporary leave following <strong>remarks she made about Teigen, 34, and Kondo, 35,</strong> in May.</p><p>Roman was slammed for making insensitive comments about the career trajectory of both women, who are Asian.</p><p>She has since apologized and <strong>acknowledged her &#8220;white privilege,</strong>&#8221; but her column <strong>was put on hold.</strong> A spokesperson for the Times <strong>told Page Six</strong>, &#8220;It was always the plan for Alison’s leave to be temporary. Her column will return.&#8221;</p><p>Roman was lambasted again earlier this week after being accused of dressing in a <strong>&#8220;chola&#8221; Halloween costume</strong>, but the food writer said the getup was meant to be an Amy Winehouse costume.</p><p>“This is an incredibly embarrassing picture that was taken in 2008,” Roman <a href="https://twitter.com/alisoneroman/status/1270099719612698630?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">responded on Twitter</a>. “I was 23 and living in SF, this was my ‘SF inspired Amy Winehouse’ costume for Halloween – it reads as culturally insensitive, and I was an idiot child who knew nothing about the world/how this would be perceived and I’m sorry.”</p>]]></content:encoded>
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