Eater Editor Apologizes for Hate Speech
Nick Solares reviewing Katz’s. Image by YouTube
The restaurant editor of influential foodie site Eater has been placed on leave after former associates outed him as a onetime “right-wing skinhead.”
Nick Solares, once known as “English Nick,” belonged to a punk band called the Youth Defense League, which “focused on the experience and liberation of the white working class… The band’s politics leaned far-right-wing, attracting many fans who did, apparently, believe in white supremacy,” according to Gawker.
Solares, for his part, posted a public apology Friday in which he claimed regret and remorse. “I am sorry to the people who were the target of my hateful speech then, and its equivalents and legacy today,” he wrote.
We can only wonder what the young Nick Solares would have thought about some of the restaurants the mature Nick Solares covered, like Russ & Daughters and Katz’s.
Michael Kaminer is a contributing editor at the Forward.
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