When Mediabistro’s intrepid founder Laurel Touby told Kurt Andersen she was launching a new media-centric site, he told her he’d read a list of who ate at Michael’s every week — and the “Lunch” column was born. (Here’s our very first post.)
What was once just a list of names and table numbers with a diagram of Michael’s floor plan has evolved into the gossip column it is today.
I started doing “Lunch” in 2006 when Dorian Benkoil, a former Mediabistro editor, asked me if I’d take a stab writing up the weekly list of who’s who in media after we’d met at the restaurant on a day when I happened to know a lot of folks in the dining room.
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