The top 10 neighbors for Eric Ripert span journalists, food media, news publishers, and authors — with no single standout pulling away from the pack. The scores run from 0.99 down to 0.97, a band of roughly two points across ten very different kinds of entities.
Tom Colicchio (0.99) and Saveur (0.98) sit at the top, the two neighbors most directly connected to food and culinary media. But they are quickly followed by Mark Bittman (0.97, Authors), The Daily Beast (0.97, News Publishers), and Brian Stelter (0.97, Journalists) — none of whom share Ripert's subcategory of Professionals. Tallying the full top 10: journalists account for two entries (Brian Stelter and Ronan Farrow, 0.97), authors for two (Mark Bittman and Frank Bruni, 0.97), and the remaining slots go to a TV Personality (Tom Colicchio), a Magazine (Saveur), a News Publisher (The Daily Beast), an Actor (Alec Baldwin, 0.97), an Academic (Paul Krugman, 0.97), and a Website (Eatocracy, 0.97). No neighbor shares Ripert's own subcategory of Professionals in the top 10.
The dominant pattern here is cross-kind: this audience is shaped primarily by journalists, authors, and news-adjacent media rather than by culinary professionals, suggesting a readership that moves fluidly between food culture and serious long-form media consumption.