‘BABISH’ EXPANDS AS PANDEMIC BOOSTS YOUTUBE COOKING SHOWS
Mac and cheese, 18th-century style. A seven-course meal using only ingredients from a convenience store. A meal that is literally on fire.
Four episodes into her new YouTube show, “Stump Sohla,” part of the expanding “Babish Culinary Universe” channel, Sohla El-Waylly has yet to be stumped by a food challenge.
El-Waylly became a familiar face on YouTube as a standout on Bon Appetit’s test kitchen channel.
But during the nationwide racial reckoning following the police killing of George Floyd, she was among members of the test kitchen who accused the channel’s owner, Conde Nast, of discriminatory compensation and other practices. A Conde Nast representative said race
