Alison Roman’s NYT food column suspended after Chrissy Teigen feud

It’s fair to say that Alison Roman is having a pretty tumultuous couple of weeks and that her feud with Chrissy Teigen isn’t going away anytime soon. After the cookbook author and food personality backtracked and apologized for the comments she made about Teigen running a "content farm", Roman’s popular food column for the New York Times has now been suspended.Daily Beast reports that the column is on “temporary leave” despite the fact that the latest story was supposedly submitted and ready to go, and a spokesperson declined to elaborate on why or reveal when readers can expect it to return. It could very well be that Roman needed to take a step back, or perhaps the powers that be weren’t interested in being dragged into a Twitter war with celebrities and it was getting a bit too hot in that kitchen.

I’ve thought a lot this weekend about my interview and the things I said. I know this is a lengthy note (succinctness has never been my strong suit). I appreciate you taking the time to read. pic.twitter.com/3iGAyN3c9d

— alison roman (@alisoneroman) May 11, 2020

Either way, it’s bad timing for Roman, who was in the middle of working on a new book and had just sold a TV show (you know the one that Chrissy Teigen was executive producing). It’s also bad news for her fans who have come to expect a new biweekly recipe to sink their teeth into.[video_embed id='1907812']RELATED: Chrissy Teigen reveals one of the hardest parts of raising a daughter[/video_embed]For those in need of a refresher, Roman came under fire for calling out Teigen and decluttering expert and best-selling author Marie Kondo as examples of how she didn’t want to dilute her brand in an interview with The New Consumer. Teigen reacted to the interview on Twitter, igniting a war in which plenty of famous people took sides. “Like, what Chrissy Teigen has done is so crazy to me," Roman told the publication. "She had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it's just, like, people running a content farm for her. That horrifies me and it's not something that I ever want to do. I don't aspire to that. But like, who's laughing now? Because she's making a ton of f------ money."Roman publicly apologized on Twitter after the incident and apparently sent Teigen an apology email following the article’s publication. Teigen has since responded to thank her for the apology and it seemed as though the beef had been put to rest. But then Teigen threw some side-shade at Roman recently when she called for her famous friends to stop asking her for free Cravings PR boxes.“Please don't ask for a box," Teigen said on her Instagram stories. "My marketing budget is not infinite but my love for you is. Also I see some of u asking and you're literally rich. What do you want from me? We're tiny. We're small. Maybe that comes from someone putting it in your head that we're just a content farm of endless money and just got so big so fast, but I promise we didn't—as great as it looks.”Sounds like we’re all going to need more refreshments to keep up with this ongoing food fight.[video_embed id='1961850']BEFORE YOU GO: Chrissy Teigen wants her rich friends to stop asking for freebies[/video_embed]