{"id":17803,"date":"2023-05-12T16:34:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/12\/meet-our-new-community-editor\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T16:34:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:34:22","slug":"meet-our-new-community-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/12\/meet-our-new-community-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our New Community Editor!"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A few months ago, I let you know that we were looking for our first Community Editor, and today I\u2019m thrilled to introduce you to Nicole Davis, who started this week!<\/p>\n

Nicole has been an editor at The New York Times<\/em> and Departures<\/em>, and is a longtime community leader\u2014she co-founded Brooklyn Based, which began as a newsletter in 2007 and grew into a thriving organization that hosted sold-out events from wedding fairs and food crawls to cocktail clubs and tasting events featuring local restaurants. They even did kitchen swaps, where people exchanged cookware with each other. Nicole once received a peculiar device that looked like a skyscraper mashed up with a guillotine\u2014designed for halving cherry tomatoes. Just what every kitchen needs!<\/p>\n

\u201cIt widens your community when you have events. It was an integral part of Brooklyn Based that I really enjoyed,\u201d Nicole told me recently. \u201cI\u2019m hoping to bring that joy to the Food52 community.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A longtime Food52er herself, Nicole said, \u201cWhat I really appreciate about the Food52 community is how very fun and often very funny the community is. There are so many LOL comments on the posts. Everyone is having a really good time.\u201d Watching Residents like Dan Pelosi<\/a> and Erin McDowell<\/a>, \u201cYou want to invite them over,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd the fact that bloopers are included in videos feels very transparent. There\u2019s no glossing over things. That warmth and humor and authenticity pervade the Food52 community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Community serves deeper needs too, but \u201cit\u2019s easy to lose the sense of a human touch online,\u201d said Nicole. \u201cPublishing a newsletter taught me that being responsive is key. When someone wrote with a question or a complaint, I know it caught many off guard to hear back from us with genuine concern. I love to break through that remote quality of being online, and make a real connection with someone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The power of community became very real for Nicole recently. Between the time she applied for this role and her start date this week, she was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer and had a mastectomy. We are all relieved for her that she is recovering and doing well.<\/p>\n

When her friends learned of her diagnosis, they wanted to do a meal train. Nicole decided to be very detailed about what her family would and would not eat, because she has a picky eater in the house and didn\u2019t want another stressor in the mix by receiving food that not everyone would eat. \u201cMy friends delivered those specific meals and it was such a huge, huge help. That was when I realized that I needed<\/em> my community to get through this.\u201d<\/p>\n

When you have something happen like a health crisis and you turn to your community, \u201cIt makes you appreciate how kind people are, and how much they\u2019re willing to help you in your time of need,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s very inspiring actually.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCommunity is meant to enrich your life\u2014you have to be open to giving to it and taking from it. It\u2019s this two-way street and you really have to make sure you\u2019re encouraging both sides of that interaction. It should expose you to new ideas, new ways of doing things. So that you come away appreciating what you\u2019ve gained.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicole has lots of ideas for our community\u2014and I\u2019ll let her tell you about them in upcoming posts of her own. In the meantime, please reach out to her at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/strong>\u2014say hello, and please share any ideas you\u2019d like her to know about.<\/p>\n

3 Food52 Tips from Nicole:<\/h4>\n