Women’s Wear Daily recently ran a feature on the launch of the Gilt Groupe’s latest venture: an “online e-commerce slash-editorial venture for foodies”. It’s called Gilt Taste and they just hired Ruth Reichl as their editor in chief. This begs the question; are these bold faced names predicting the future? Is e-commerce going to be the next publishing success?

Gourmet, as loyal readers are painfully aware, is no more, but much-beloved former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl is likely heading to a silver screen near you. According to the LA Times blog Daily Dish, Reichl’s third memoir Garlic and Sapphires may hit the screen sometime this year:

Former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl guested on NPR’s Leonard Lopate show yesterday to talk about Gourmet‘s “shocking” demise, and the immediate aftermath (they had to be out of the office almost immediately). Also, how she was informed of the news and how she informed her staff.

One supposes that at the end of the day someone should be benefiting from the shuttering-heard-round-the-food-world that was the folding of Gourmet earlier this month. Turns out that someone is the other (arguably less passionately loved) Condé foodie magazine Bon Appetit.

Ruth Reichl did a Q&A in this Sunday’s NYT Magazine and talked briefly about the loss of her magazine. Reichl revealed that Si Newhouse informed her “not on email” (snap!) about Gourmet‘s “stunning” demise, and also discussed why she feels The New Yorker will remain “untouched” forever.

The Monday morning Gourmet quarterbacking continues a week after Condé Nast decided to shutter the much-loved foodie mag along with three others. Now that the initial dust has settled from the first round and the much of the magazine world is waiting for the second shoe to drop, a number of folks are taking a peak behind the curtain at the wizard himself. It ain’t pretty.

After years of being the sacred cow of the magazine world, Condé Nast has, with the shuttering of Gourmet, in one fell swoop demonstrated actually nothing is sacred. The panic has apparently reached the op-ed pages of the New York Times, and it would seem a harsh reality is setting in: your years of experience, quality work, and credentials no longer matter.

Devoted fans of Gourmet were shocked and heartbroken over Monday’s announcement that Condé Nast would be shuttering the magazine effective immediately. They weren’t the only ones. A quick glance at Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl’s recent twitters drive home how much of a painful surprise the decision was to both her and her staff. At least the airport people were nice!

Slate’s Jack Shafer comparing the fate of Conde Nast to that of that other overreaching, reality-ignoring American powerhouse, General Motors. Next up: Graydon Carter and Anna Wintour fly to Washington in their private jets to beg for a bailout!

the shuttering of Gourmet remains to many the biggest shock of today’s Condé Nast layoffs. The fate of its equally well-known editor Ruth Reichl is unknown right now, though considering the company plans to keep both the publishing and television arm of Gourmet active chances are they will find a place for her. That said, what does Reichl’s precarious position say about the fate of Condé’s other high profile editors?