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What is "Slutty Food?"
Last weekend, the editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit hit a nerve when he tweeted about the "slutty Chinese food" he'd just eaten. Chefs, writers and readers quickly took sides with some female restaurateurs calling out "bro appétit" as sexist and others embracing the use of "slutty" in the food lexicon.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readLast weekend, the editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit hit a nerve when he tweeted about the "slutty Chinese food" he'd just eaten. Chefs, writers and readers quickly took sides with some female restaurateurs calling out "bro appétit" as sexist and others embracing the use of "slutty" in the food lexicon.
Besha Rodell addressed the controversy in an essay for the LA Weekly, "The Death of Raunch in Kitchen Culture."
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1 of 8Slutty Food, Hot Chicken, Will Nutrition Labels Get a Makeover?- 0:00What is "Slutty Food?"You’re reading this
- 10:35The Story of Nashville Hot Chicken
- 19:57Ten Years after Katrina, New Orleans Restaurants are Booming
- 28:25The Diet of a Sumo Wrestler
- 34:18Jonathan Gold Reviews Cassia in Santa Monica
- 35:00Talking Pie and Pi with LA Earthquake Czar Lucy Jones
- 43:48FDA Proposes a Daily Value for Sugar on Nutrition Labels
- 49:44Market Report