#Bon Appétit loses yet another Test Kitchen viral video personality in mass exodus

It’s a mass exodus at one of Condé Nast’s most successful endeavors.

Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen has lost Carla Lalli Music, the food mag’s editor-at-large and one of the video series’ most popular contributors. The chef and cookbook author is the latest staffer to bail on the brand, which workers say is continuing to balk at calls for pay equity, among other things, for its employees of color during new contract negotiations.

“I am leaving Bon Appétit video. I will miss doing something I loved with people I still love,” tweeted Lalli Music, who added that she’ll remain with the company in her editorial role.

The Condé Nast Entertainment arm has now lost six of its video personalities, who rose to celebrity status demonstrating cooking techniques and recipes in their airy One World Trade Center kitchen. The video channel, which boasts 6 million subscribers on YouTube, was one of the few money-making successes for the beleaguered publishing company, New York Magazine reported last year.

The drama unfolded in June, when Bon Appétit Editor-in-Chief Adam Rapoport resigned after a photo surfaced that showed him in brownface. Matt Duckor, head of Condé Nast Entertainment’s lifestyle video programming, stepped down that same month amid allegations that he didn’t feature people of color in Bon Appétit Test Kitchen videos and paid them less than their white colleagues.

In June, assistant food editor Sohla El-Waylly publicly addressed her low salary compared to her white colleagues.

“Sohla El-Waylly bravely spoke out about her salary and the racist practices that sidelined and tokenized her as a Bon Appétit video host,” Lalli-Music tweeted in her announcement. “Her statements ushered in a torrent of information about failures at Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE).”

Test Kitchen contributing writer Priya Krishna, El-Waylly and contributing food editor Rick Martinez — who make up half of the six people of color featured on the site —  also announced their departures, followed by Molly Baz, the senior food editor, and Gaby Melian, the test kitchen manager and writer.

All videos on the channel ceased as of about two months ago, as many staffers refused to appear in them until their colleagues were paid fairly.

Krishna, El-Waylly and Martinez had been in five weeks of contract negotiations before their exits, reported Business Insider.

But the added pressure “wasn’t enough,” Lalli-Music wrote Wednesday, claiming the media company’s entertainment division was “unable or unwilling to articulate specific, measurable goals about diversity and inclusion among BA hosts, crew, show topics or recipe selection.”

A memo acquired by The Wrap from global HR officer Stan Duncan read, “We are sorry to see some of our video contributors part ways, but we feel that we cannot break the standard compensation rates we’ve set across our teams now in order to keep them, as some have been requesting.”

Lalli-Music, 46, alluded to her and others’ eventual departure last month in a cryptic tweet, praising the former staff of Deadspin for banding together to form their own publication.

The Post has reached out to Condé Nast for comment.