nikita richardson
@nikitarbk
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editor at @nytfood (embed alum on the breaking news desk) // lifelong class clown // i write the Where to Eat: New York City newsletter
Brooklyn, NY via Georgia
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we’ve got the meats plus several vegetarian and vegan options
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the holy trinity of desk drinks is a big water, a two-hour-old iced coffee and a flavored seltzer.
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one day you’re a hot, fun 20-something and before you know it you’re a hot, fun 30-something with an interest in birds
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i think this headline is a mischaracterization of the situation. he’s being called to resign over creating a work environment that was uncomfortable and sometimes downright hostile to minorities
Bon Appétit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport called to resign over brownface photo
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943 days. that how long it's been since i was laid off from BA. and that's how long i've waited for all of this to go public.
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this is why i haven’t been answering media requests. thanks to
@rrpre
for reaching out and asking about my time at bon appétit before any of this week’s events went down.
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america may be losing but i'm so happy for CSPAN. you know they are eatingggg
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annie's white cheedar mac & cheese for lunch but browned the butter and added parm and lots of black pepper. please hit me with your own improvements below.
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i have a friend who chose her wedding day based on historical data. she saw that rain had never been recorded on that date in georgia, like, ever and true to form, it did not rain on her wedding day. i think about that a lot.
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oh and what did it take me to go on the record (i.e. have my name on my quotes): conversations with 4 lawyers to make sure i wouldn’t get sued, written and verbal support from mgmt at
@nymag
, and calls/texts with at least half a dozen other journalists for advice including my EIC
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today’s my first day at NYT and in lieu of congratulations lol my question is what have been your favorite traits in a great manager and/or great editor?
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you ever feel like you're both the bull and the owner of the china shop?
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bon appétit was and is run like a popularity contest. your IG following is directly connected to how well you’re treated there or how important your input is considered. anyway, i’m going to sleep more in the AM...or maybe not! idk! i’m so tired!
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i’m just heartbroken for ryan walker (adam’s asst) because after i was laid off, i felt like i left my friend (and the only other blk employee) alone in an place where i *knew* she would be mistreated. i’m immensely grateful that
@JesseASparks
stepped in to protect my girl.
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the way people of a certain age use ellipses IS VIOLENCE
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earlier today, a former colleague shared a story of a black colleague doing footwork on a story about a black female line cook only to find that story reported and written by a white person months later. i was that little girl lol
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this is why waffle houses should be designated polling sites
BREAKING- A pipe burst earlier today at State Farm Arena will delay the counting of absentee ballots in Fulton County GA, one of the biggest in the state, for 3-4 hours. All Fulton County’s absentee ballots are processed at the arena. No ballots or machines were damaged: Official
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station eleven taught me that people whose main talents are in communications and arts can survive an apocalypse and that’s what we call representation
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yooooo, this is my local coffee shop! in March, when i couldn't leave my apt. because i thought i might have COVID, they dropped coffee beans off at my house. they employ a diverse group of people. they certainly don't deserve this.
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the first time i did yoga and realized the final pose was “just lay there and chill,” i knew it was the exercise practice for me
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me leaving breadcrumbs because i never thought this day would come (from my story about embracing natural hair during quarantine)
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i wrote this article because one night i was walking home and thinking about my time at bon app and got so angry that i had to exorcise all the BS i put up with in article form
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@CellieNJuju
you know what you should support?!
@whetstone_mag
and
@ForTheCultureM1
two independent black-owned food publications!!
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don’t want to alarm anyone, but i’ve sensed fall-like crispness in the air the last 3-4 nights. idk what to tell you.
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there’s still so much to say about how i and the other people interviewed in this story were treated (or rather mistreated) but this is the most deeply reported story so far.
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this is the first i’m hearing of this 😂 jk! very excited to be joining the times
We're delighted to welcome two new editors to
@nytfood
and
#nytcooking
. Please welcome
@nikitarbk
and
@tanyasic
!
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and from this day forward i never spent much time in the test kitchen if carla was down there. sneaking around in your own workplace? i think not.
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sometimes i take what i call “SVU naps,” which is when you fall asleep on your couch during an episode of Law & Order: SVU. it is its own nap category.
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rihanna not bringing out a single person featured in any of these songs is ICONIC
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if you've ever had A/C water drop directly into your eye on a sidewalk in Manhattan, you don't need to worry about what's in the vaccine
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geniuses often aren’t recognized in their lifetimes 🫡
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don’t let the tone of this email fool you: when you feel like an imposter every day, even the smallest slight can break you.
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Shrill is gonna lose a lot of people when they type S-H-R into the search bar and see Shrek 1 & 2 are on Hulu. not me though. i already watched Shrek this week
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i'm sorry, but if you've ever paid full price for le creuset, you're doing something wrong
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the only true difference between good cooking and bad cooking is butter and salt
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there’s nothing too small to look forward to. it can be finally taking off your shoes or sitting down on the subway or going on a vacation. life is full of a million tiny things to look forward to sandwiched between big things to look forward to.
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having your 11th grade english teacher say they're "proud but not surprised" is like actual drugs
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Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
❤️
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new york's hottest club is the bird feeder i set up on my fire escape. we've got downy woodpeckers, cardinals, bleu jays, mourning doves, and no squirrels because i banged on the window and scared them away last week.
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i've decided that the thing that keeps me coming back to new york isn't the energy or the people. it's the delicious tap water.
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take it from me, your Wordle streak is eventually going to get broken. instead of letting SLUNG ruin your life (as it did mine), why not take charge and break it on your own terms. refrain from using Wordle and other NYT products tomorrow in support of the
@NYTimesGuild
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the biggest personal problem i face is that my anger often manifests as crying and people think i'm sad when i'm actually pissed off. would appreciate any advice on remedying this since i've literally dealt with this since i was 8 lol
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the only weight loss stories we should concern ourselves with are those of cats that used to be fat and are now less fat
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i don't know the whole story, of course, but on the long list of problematic cis white men at BA, matt hunziker was at or near the bottom. wth.
NEW: Condé Nast has suspended the Bon Appétit video editor behind It's Alive by Brad Leone.
Condé says there were "many concerns" internally about Matt Hunziker. Employees claim Hunziker's social media posts criticizing Condé likely got him suspended.
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okay, ✨now✨ i can diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel. (special thanks to
@GMPaiella
,
@SaraQDavid
and
@karenyhan
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one good thing about late fall/winter in new york (and pre-war buildings) is that the delicious tap water comes out of the faucet super cold
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my big, fat where to eat (in new york city this summer)! this was a huge team effort and we hope you like it!
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for context, David Marchese asked Jann Wenner why his new book of interviews with rock masters includes no women or POC. and this answer is woof, but no surprise if you’ve read “sticky fingers” by
@joehagansays
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hey cousin, let this be your final sign to just go ahead and watch The Bear
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the no. 1 problem with media is that being a good editor is significantly more valuable than being a good manager when they should be valued equally. great editors are allowed to get away with murder if they’re putting out stories that perform well.
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i’ve never performed in front of thousands of people, but i have parallel parked in front of strangers and it’s basically the same thing
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every two-cat household needs a tiny sassy cat with no fear and the capacity to only love one person, and a big, floppy cat that loves anyone who feeds them and scares easily
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finding myself quite against the proliferation of electric tea kettles. when did having a kettle on your stove at all times become an inconvenience?! the aesthetics alone!!!
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if you leave nyc on a holiday weekend, what are you doing? that's the *best* time to be in town.
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Last week, my dad was telling me how jarred and hurt he was by Anthony Bourdain's death. I had no idea he'd had such a profound effect on my dad's life, so I talked to other men Bourdain's age about how they felt about him. This is the result:
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i can't speak for all chefs, but let me just say that this bake sale has made me realize that pastry chefs are some of the most generous, kind, responsive, and *responsible* people i've had the pleasure of working with. makes me wish they were more appreciated in the food world!
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when tierra whack said "i don't want to work it out so cancel our gym membership," i felt that.
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no turkey this year, just a 16-piece family meal from popeyes which is objectively better
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Wow, ok, unfollowing now. Didn’t know they were all of them deceived for another ring was made.
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anyone else having a worse week than usual? i'm getting reports from several reliable sources that this week is not going well.
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cats invented throwing up and immediately getting back to the party
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petition to make this the "i voted" sticker for all counties in new york state
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just thinking about how raising a child who doesn’t know how to clean up after themselves is the equivalent of raising someone’s future bad roommate
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i wrote this note to myself in 2018 after i was laid off three weeks before thanksgiving. i know the realities are very different now but i come back to it every time horrible layoffs come around. hope it can be useful to someone out there.
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we need a subway reeducation course because people seem to have forgotten that you’re supposed to TAKE YOUR BACKPACK OFF on a crowded train
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your exclamation points will not protect you. good night.
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i deserve the award for biggest jester flop in the clown square today
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plus this would have been the second time in my time at BA that i was told that people had spoken badly about me without finding out who said it or what they specifically said.
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Someone give an Emmy to the 11-year-old kween on tonight's
#GameOfThrones
. She does not suffer fools.
#demthrones
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nothing worse than logging into your work computer on a monday morning and seeing the sad vestiges of a friday afternoon
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I started working on this massive project in April and it's out today and a lot of fantastic people worked on it with me and I hope you all enjoy it.
It was another fantastic year for cookbooks. We cooked through dozens of them and landed on these 14 cookbooks as being the best 2021 had to offer.
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at this point, the most offensive part of the “i don’t need the backstory, just the recipe” comment is actually the lack of originality 😬 get new jokes!
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i think it's high time we incorporate drop-everything-and-read into the modern workplace
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Good morning! Last summer, I pitched a restaurants newsletter and next week, March 22, Where to Eat: New York City arrives! It'll be Times subscriber-only but free for the first four weeks. It's going to be fun (and informative!) and I hope you'll sign up!
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all i’m saying is if the fireworks are going to be a part of life in new york for the foreseeable future, perhaps it’s time to legalize weed (and expunge weed charges from the records of a few thousand people at the same time)
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if you're not watching Sex Education, what what what are you doing?!
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i’ll never forget the time (2014) i commented that a meeting was super productive because the deputy editor sent pitch prompts beforehand (everyone laughed and agreed) and then the managing editor pulled me into her office and admonished me for being “too familiar” with mgmt
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my advice for paying off your student loans instead of waiting for a government hand out: live with roommates. make all your food at home. stop spending money on things you don't need. fake your own death. change your identity. leave your family behind. move to another country.
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every day my goal is to just make sure my first drink of the day is water and not coffee lol
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you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
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i went 818 days without committing a reply all faux pas. i will diminish and go into the West and remain Galadriel.
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As part of the Where to Eat launch (first newsletter drops later today!), I’ll be interviewing
@desusnice
about eating well in New York City. Sign up for the virtual event below 😝
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for some reason they let me take over the five weeknight dishes newsletter this week and the theme is way too lazy to cook meat
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"can't believe i'm expected to work under these conditions."
the conditions: overcast, rainy weather on a friday
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true life: i'm a millennial and i've worked at the same company for more than 2 years and 10 months
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I’ve said before that you don’t know who your babysitter might become but you also don’t know who the people you babysat for so long ago (already incredible medical professionals) might become! This is so amazing
@uche_blackstock
and
@oni_blackstock
!
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The
@nytimes
wants us back in the office. We want management to bargain with us in good faith, which includes our✨fair wage proposals✨. I’m working from home this week along with 1,300 of my
@NYTimesGuild
and
@NYTGuildTech
colleagues, with support from
@WirecutterUnion
.
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