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Conde Nast Takes a Knife to Bon Appetit, Details

Bon Appetit may have survived the food fight that caused sister title Gourmet to fold on October 5, but the left coast magazine wasn’t spared from the ongoing layoffs at Condé Nast.

Barbara Fairchild, Bon Appetit’s longtime editor-in-chief, cut six editorial staffers in the Los Angeles office yesterday, according to sources.

And Details — which lost its publisher, Steve DeLuca, in the early days of the Condé Carnage — had two business positions axed yesterday by Bill Wackerman, the senior vice president and publishing director of Glamour who is now overseeing the men’s book.

Media Ink estimates that the company is trying to cope with a falloff in ad revenue of $400 to $500 million compared to a year ago and a net loss estimated to be around $200 million.