Photo: Alison Roman/Instagram
Alison Romanwill not be returning to her role as a food columnist atThe New York Times.
On Wednesday, the cookbook author revealed in a lengthyInstagrampost that she would not be heading back toNYT Cooking.The news comes seven months after her column was placed on a hiatus following herdramawithChrissy Teigen. (TheTimestold People in late May that “it was always the plan for Alison’s leave to be temporary.")
In the post, Roman, 35, first expressed her appreciation after her Caramelized Shallot Pasta recipe scored the top slot in theTimes “Most Popular Recipes of 2020"list, published Sunday.
“I am beyond grateful to see this lil shallot pasta as the number 1 recipe on NYT Cooking this year. It came out in January, before the pandemic, before gestures wildly all of this. You cooked it a million times and told your friends to cook it and said ‘yes, I know you don’t like anchovies but please just trust me’ and your friends did trust you. And it happened all over the world! In a global pandemic! In 2020!” she began the caption. “You turned this silly list of pantry ingredients into something wonderful, cooked it for your friends, your lovers, your babies, your neighbors, and yourself.”
“There is no greater compliment to someone who does what I do than to have a recipe shared this widely and this year, it means more than it ever has in my whole life,” Roman added.
Roman went on to reveal her job update at the end of the post, noting that while she won’t be returning to theTimes, she is “proud” of her time at the company.
“I’m proud of the work we made together but excited for this new chapter which includes more recipes, videos and writing over onA Newsletterand beyond,” she wrote of theemail newslettershe sends out to subscribers.
Back in May, Roman found herself in hot water after she criticizedTeigen’s cooking website for being what she perceived as a “content farm"and claimed thatMarie Kondohad “sold out,” in an interview withThe New Consumer.
She has since apologized to both women for her “tone deaf remarks” and Teigen later expressed her disappointment over hearing the news about Roman’s column being placed on a hiatus.
“I hope we can laugh about it one day butI’m not happywith the NYT leave so she def can’t laugh about it yet. It just sucks in every way,” the model tweeted.
Alison Roman, Chrissy Teigen.Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images; Amanda Edwards/WireImage
In the weeks after the controversy, Roman shared a post on Instagramaddressing how she’s been doingsince she apologized to Teigen and Kondo.
She then updated her fans on her work telling them that for the “foreseeable future” they would be able to connect with her through her newsletter.
source: people.com
