Lilah Raptopoulos

Writer, journalist, audio maker, city lover:

Writer, journalist, audio maker, city lover:

I’m a travel editor for US cities at the Financial Times (US editor of FT Globetrotter), covering food, culture, art and more in cities across America

I hosted culture podcasts at the FT for five years: Life and Art podcast, and before that Culture Call

I write culture stories

And I’m working on a book, about taste memories.

 

Life and Art’s archive is wherever you listen

Say hi on Instagram


Read my writing here.


Recipes die every day. Very occasionally, they come back to life

 In Turkey, Cambodia and beyond, recipe hunters are resurrecting lost cuisines.

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Finding my Armenia, a century after the genocide

Personal essay: I am half Armenian. My grandfather and great grandparents survived the Armenian Genocide. Like many in the diaspora, my family had never made the trip to Armenia. In September, we went. It was moving, delightful, complex. So I wrote about it.

Live interview with poet Natasha Trethewey

September 2020

Lilah talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at the FT Weekend Live Festival.