Bon Appétit As A Style Editor At Condé Nast Magazine

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INTRODUCTION
Bon Appétit is an American food and entertaining magazine published monthly. It was started by M.
Frank Jones in Kansas City in 1956. Jones was owner, editor and publisher until 1970, when Bon
Appétit was merged into the Pillsbury Company, who sold it to Knapp Communications, publishers of Architectural Digest, four years later. Condé
Nast Publications, the current owners, purchased
Knapp Communications in 1993. Its sister publication was Gourmet, before the latter was discontinued in October 2009. The magazine's headquarters, which had been in Los Angeles, CA, were moved to New York City in early 2011.
The current editor is Adam Rapoport, previously
Style Editor at Condé Nast's GQ magazine. Prior to joining GQ, Rapoport edited

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