An upsettinger sea change

We are serious about preserving real community discourse, and we're always happy to engage with feedback given in a respectful manner. Pegeen's original Hotline post included personal attacks against the two of us, which is why it was removed. We have also removed the comment from this thread containing explicit language. As we noted within the previous thread, we hear you. It was never our intention for anyone to feel slighted by this change, and we're truly sorry about this unintended consequence. We will certainly keep your comments in mind for the future, and we hope your holidays are restful, joyous, and of course delicious. - Amanda & Merrill

I sincerely apologize if I offended anyone, but I fail to see how other than being extremey honest. Thank you everyone for expressions of support.

Truly, it's not what you did, it's how you did it. I am stymied that a business the size of Food52 (in other words, big enough to have good quality staff, service providers and business advisors) lacked the common sense of sending an email, or writing a short Feature, explaining that the honorifics would no longer be a part of the site going forward, and thanking one and all for the substantial contribution of time and commitment that they represented. We helped you build this site. A little tip of the hat would have been nice and so easy to do.

But enough. It's the holidays... there is much food to be cooked and recipes to be debated. I wish everyone good cheer.

I missed the initial thread, but it looks like everyone who previously had the "trusted home cook" honorific lost that title. I guess the new editorial board would say it was our choice to participate in the early days, but still, there could be a good deal more grace exercised here.

I was wondering what happened to them and then realized it was a new format.
Personally, those individuals who had a little description after their name gave me more confidence that they were an experienced cook.

The comment you're referring to violated this section in our community guidelines:
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I didn't see Peegeen's thread, but lately I have noticed that questions having to do with shop orders and customer service are being taken down.