Lilah Raptopoulos
@lilahrap.bsky.social
US editor of Globetrotter, the Financial Times' culture and city guides. Former host of Life and Art pod. Food history detective. Lover of dolma. Find me on ig @lilahrap
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Lilah Raptopoulos
@lilahrap.bsky.social
· Jan 24
Very excited to join the Globetrotter team at @financialtimes.com as US editor of Globetrotter, to help expand our culture and travel guides across American cities. It's been an honor to host FT Weekend's culture podcast for five years. This new job is a real thrill.
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Hiii I wrote a guide to my home and my favorite place in New York, where plastic bags float in the wind and cherry factory juice bleeds onto the sidewalk and you can throw all your biggest worries into the sea www.ft.com/content/cb2d...
New York City has a seaside village: eating and drinking in Red Hook, Brooklyn
The best time to visit Red Hook is the autumn and winter — when it gets quiet, but everything’s open
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hiii I wrote a guide to my home and my favorite place in New York, where plastic bags float in the wind and cherry factory juice bleeds onto the sidewalk and you can throw all your biggest worries into the sea www.ft.com/content/cb2d...
Reposted by Lilah Raptopoulos
Samin Nosrat's 2017 book 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat' could be the most influential book on cooking in the 21st century, says Lilah Raptopoulos. Join them for Lunch with the FT in Manhattan (with sparklers) on.ft.com/46Vpt6V
Chef Samin Nosrat: ‘So much of cooking is about being present’
The ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ author on food, memory and heritage — and why she tries to make something every day
on.ft.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Samin Nosrat's 2017 book 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat' could be the most influential book on cooking in the 21st century, says Lilah Raptopoulos. Join them for Lunch with the FT in Manhattan (with sparklers) on.ft.com/46Vpt6V
Very excited to join the Globetrotter team at @financialtimes.com as US editor of Globetrotter, to help expand our culture and travel guides across American cities. It's been an honor to host FT Weekend's culture podcast for five years. This new job is a real thrill.
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January 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Very excited to join the Globetrotter team at @financialtimes.com as US editor of Globetrotter, to help expand our culture and travel guides across American cities. It's been an honor to host FT Weekend's culture podcast for five years. This new job is a real thrill.
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Our last episode of Life and Art from FT Weekend comes out tomorrow. <3
January 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Our last episode of Life and Art from FT Weekend comes out tomorrow. <3
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The cuisine of the Assyrians - a ppl with no country but millennia of culture and history. This episode is what
@financialtimes.com excels at - giving the marginal some meaningful visibility. This Weekend’s “Places of Worship” is equally delightful and fulfilling and including #Armenian monastery
@financialtimes.com excels at - giving the marginal some meaningful visibility. This Weekend’s “Places of Worship” is equally delightful and fulfilling and including #Armenian monastery
December 25, 2024 at 3:35 AM
The cuisine of the Assyrians - a ppl with no country but millennia of culture and history. This episode is what
@financialtimes.com excels at - giving the marginal some meaningful visibility. This Weekend’s “Places of Worship” is equally delightful and fulfilling and including #Armenian monastery
@financialtimes.com excels at - giving the marginal some meaningful visibility. This Weekend’s “Places of Worship” is equally delightful and fulfilling and including #Armenian monastery
December 10, 2024 at 3:43 PM
‘He said the biggest downside our brains lose by speeding up videos is the pauses in speech. The edited-out pauses are actually necessary to do the deep thinking that remembering and understanding what you watch requires, Hasson said: “The thinking is done in the gap between the words.“‘
Are you a TokFaster too? Wrote about how I broke my brain watching TikToks at 2x speed and talked to a neuroscientist who had a stern warning for what this is doing it my brain. www.huffpost.com/entry/tiktok...
People Are Watching TikToks At 2x Speed — This Is What It's Doing To Their Brains
There's a price your brain pays for watching life in fast-forward, a neuroscientist says.
www.huffpost.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:30 PM
‘He said the biggest downside our brains lose by speeding up videos is the pauses in speech. The edited-out pauses are actually necessary to do the deep thinking that remembering and understanding what you watch requires, Hasson said: “The thinking is done in the gap between the words.“‘
Love this piece. "If hundreds of millions of normal music listeners have decided to trade audio quality for convenience and variety, then fair enough. But what disconcerted me is that I didn’t know that’s what I’d done. I had simply forgotten how much better music used to sound."
This CD player was my birthday present in 1997 along with the incomparable Fresh Hits 1997. I found it recently and COULD NOT BELIEVE how rich the sound was, after years of streaming Spotify on my phone. My column today is about this phenomenon, which I’m calling “qualitynesia” on.ft.com/3ZlwHf5
December 3, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Love this piece. "If hundreds of millions of normal music listeners have decided to trade audio quality for convenience and variety, then fair enough. But what disconcerted me is that I didn’t know that’s what I’d done. I had simply forgotten how much better music used to sound."
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Who knew? The staff - at every level - at the Metropolitan Museum had their own art show!
Great piece by Lilah 👇🏻
Great piece by Lilah 👇🏻
This is the best thing on right now in New York.
Go to the Met. Nearly 700 employees - guards, cleaners, curators, conservators - have their work on view in a massive exhibit.
It's likely the biggest collection of living artists' work in a major museum in the country on.ft.com/4ewTl9R
Go to the Met. Nearly 700 employees - guards, cleaners, curators, conservators - have their work on view in a massive exhibit.
It's likely the biggest collection of living artists' work in a major museum in the country on.ft.com/4ewTl9R
The Met’s secret employee art show is no longer secret
Behind the scenes at the museum’s biggest-ever showcase of its staff art
on.ft.com
November 23, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Who knew? The staff - at every level - at the Metropolitan Museum had their own art show!
Great piece by Lilah 👇🏻
Great piece by Lilah 👇🏻
As you may have heard on the podcast, Life and Art is ending in early January. It’s been the absolute honor of my career to host that show.
If you want to keep following my work, stay in touch here or on IG @lilahrap. More news soon.
My real thank you is here: www.instagram.com/p/DCuHswrPc-...
If you want to keep following my work, stay in touch here or on IG @lilahrap. More news soon.
My real thank you is here: www.instagram.com/p/DCuHswrPc-...
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November 23, 2024 at 6:39 PM
As you may have heard on the podcast, Life and Art is ending in early January. It’s been the absolute honor of my career to host that show.
If you want to keep following my work, stay in touch here or on IG @lilahrap. More news soon.
My real thank you is here: www.instagram.com/p/DCuHswrPc-...
If you want to keep following my work, stay in touch here or on IG @lilahrap. More news soon.
My real thank you is here: www.instagram.com/p/DCuHswrPc-...
This is the best thing on right now in New York.
Go to the Met. Nearly 700 employees - guards, cleaners, curators, conservators - have their work on view in a massive exhibit.
It's likely the biggest collection of living artists' work in a major museum in the country on.ft.com/4ewTl9R
Go to the Met. Nearly 700 employees - guards, cleaners, curators, conservators - have their work on view in a massive exhibit.
It's likely the biggest collection of living artists' work in a major museum in the country on.ft.com/4ewTl9R
The Met’s secret employee art show is no longer secret
Behind the scenes at the museum’s biggest-ever showcase of its staff art
on.ft.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:04 PM
This is the best thing on right now in New York.
Go to the Met. Nearly 700 employees - guards, cleaners, curators, conservators - have their work on view in a massive exhibit.
It's likely the biggest collection of living artists' work in a major museum in the country on.ft.com/4ewTl9R
Go to the Met. Nearly 700 employees - guards, cleaners, curators, conservators - have their work on view in a massive exhibit.
It's likely the biggest collection of living artists' work in a major museum in the country on.ft.com/4ewTl9R
Ok. Hi. Creating an account here is giving me a 2004 buzz, I hope this place is fun.
November 21, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Ok. Hi. Creating an account here is giving me a 2004 buzz, I hope this place is fun.