Et tu, Bon Appetit? I have been a subscriber for nearly a decade, and I have always looked forward to seeing the enticing food images that grace your covers and set the tone for the issue every month. I was horrified to discover that June’s cover instead featured the self-satisfied sneer of Gwyneth Paltrow, Hollywood’s most pernicious phony. If you were going to break ranks from the food magazine industry standard, and replace the usual image of the actual topic at hand – food – with an image of a food personality, why on earth didn’t you choose someone who actually deserves the honor? With the sharp increase in food journalism and food television in the past few years, there are a wealth of famous faces you could have chosen to celebrate – celebrity chefs, groundbreaking food pioneers, activists, artisans – and instead you go with a movie star who happens to have written a kids’ cookbook? I feel betrayed. I really thought Bon Appetit was above this sort of Hollywood pandering. I ride the subway to work in Washington D.C. every day, and I have always been proud to read Bon Appetit, with its usual mouthwatering cover art, as I did so. I’ve even received questions from fellow riders about the magazine, based on one particularly delicious-looking cover image or another. But now that Bon Appetit can’t be distinguished at a glance from a trashy celebrity gossip magazine, I can assure you that the June issue will not be making the commute with me.
Here's hoping that you return to your senses!
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