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[Comino | Food Stories @cominostories]

Hospitality Heroes is returning next week with a very special episode. Stay tuned...

Catch up on Ep. 1-3 at https://t.co/zZ1mSLSFd8

#hospitality #heroes #cominofoodstories #foodmedia #foodstories

[Comino | Food Stories @cominostories]

The Fortuna Chocolate truck video is up! #chocolate #foodtruck #coloradocheck
https://t.co/qSVHG9dz3U

[Tanner Gibas @TannerGibas]

The Fortuna Chocolate Truck

Watch full video and read story: https://t.co/sXxM5wkDJ5

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[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

This past week, my employer, @latimes, sent this statement to various news outlets.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

This week, the @latimes essentially told me, "It's not me, it's you."

Nah, LAT. It's you.

I appreciate any RTs or signal boosts.

[Eater @Eater]

Ordering from the same places is a reflex and shortcut, a way to avoid thinking long and hard about “who to show support to tonight” when the options are overwhelming. Making a list of restaurants can help with that. https://t.co/ZB3eNZag90

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

I don't understand how it’s considered radical for progressives to fight for an equitable society, but it’s accepted that Senate Republicans would rather take a vacation for Thanksgiving and let thousands of people die from the virus than pass relief.

Who’s really radical here?

[Comino | Food Stories @cominostories]

We’re still waiting for action - @latimes

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

Last night, after nearly 6 anxious months of being told "the company will have a response for you shortly," my employer, @latimes, finally handed me a decision on the pay discrimination claim I filed through my union.

[Henry Quinceston @benbmims]

@piescarcega @latimes God, I’m so sorry Patricia. I didn’t think this would ever be the outcome after all the months of promises to “do better.” You deserve so much better. ❤️

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

BREAKING: More than 600,000 Georgians have requested their mail ballots for the January 5 runoff elections.

Help elect @ReverendWarnock and @ossoff to the U.S. Senate by requesting your ballot today ➡️ https://t.co/xCyh7BhY3o. Happy voting and let’s get it done... again. #gapol

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

The only way I can make sense of this kind of pain is to write about it honestly and share it with anyone who will listen.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

Thank you for reading. I plan to keep writing about this, because I have been keeping notes for months of every racially insensitive comment my former managers hurled my way, and I have many painful but instructive stories to share about my tenure so far @latimes.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

I realize discrimination is rampant in journalism and food media, and that the @latimes has a history of making women and journalists of color feel like dispensable workhorses. But ubiquity does not make discrimination okay.

I would appreciate any RTs or signal boosts.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

Why hire the first Latinx restaurant critic in the history of the @latimes, and then pay them so much less for doing the exact same work?

I refuse to let this discrimination stand. It is immoral, unethical, and illegal.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

…weaponizing the concept of “prestige” in order to try to get away with what one colleague privately described to me as the biggest pay gap she has ever seen at the Los Angeles Times.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

…discrimination has been compounded by months of icy indifference and well-documented abusive behavior from my former managers); and to all readers and students of journalism, who deserve a paper that acts honestly, ethically and in good faith, rather than a company intent on…

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

It sends a heart-breaking message to every Latinx kid like me, who dreamed of some day writing for the @latimes; to our readers, who deserve a paper where Latinx and women are valued and paid the same as their white male counterparts (and where the emotional toll and pain of…

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

This week, many people at the L.A. Times put their heads together and wrote me a letter that said: Your work is not worth the same as a white man’s.

This is a cruel fiction.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

…two restaurant critics.

Systemic bias and discrimination is too sanitary and too kind a term for this ugliness. Pay discrimination is rampant in newsrooms, but it is also highly personal, the product of many people’s individual decisions.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

This decision is a sharp reversal of what the @latimes indicated over the summer, when I was informally told that it was working on a resolution, and when an @latimes manager called me in June to tell me that the company was “fixing” the Grand Canyon-size pay gap between its…

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

The @latimes has consistently advertised us as “co-critics.”