Food Media With Teeth Ravenous is a worker-owned food and culture website serving thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world, founded by some of the best known food journalists and writers across the country.

On Monday, I and four colleagues launched a month-long subscription drive for Ravenous (@weareravenous.com). We are a worker-owned food and culture site, aiming to publish thoughtful and incisive reporting, opinion pieces, and blogs about everything food touches. www.weareravenous.com/about/

As a food enjoyer, I'm excited to see food journalism embracing the independent model. Easy subscribe for me!

I was on this week's episode of This is TASTE talking about @weareravenous.com, our subscription drive, and some of the amazing stories we have planned. tastecooking.com/this-is-tast...

Meet a Ravenous Founder: Frances Dumlao "Ravenous’s worker-owned model is going to be a sustainable way to run a food media company."

Every writer needs someone to help them figure out how to promote their work and connect with the audience. At Ravenous, that person is @francesdoingthings.bsky.social. She’s already the mastermind behind our social presence and has done a huge chunk of planning our fundraising.

we're here. we're hot dogs. get used to it.

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We have another great interview with Ravenous co-founder @francesdoingthings.bsky.social today, where she talks about advertisers creeping into editorial independence, and also the superiority of spam sushi www.weareravenous.com/frances-duml...

Food Media With Teeth Ravenous is a worker-owned food and culture website serving thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world, founded by some of the best known food journalists and writers across the country.

So if any of this sounds appealing to you, whether that's the food coverage or the ethos behind it, please subscribe, donate, tell your friends, tell your enemies. www.weareravenous.com/about/

It also means we are not looking to make endless profits. We don't need the line to go up forever. We just want to make enough to live on, pay other people well, and keep going. But that, of course, means we will need subscribers.

Worker-owned media isn't going to solve all of media's problems. But I can't tell you how many times in my career advertisers or investors or CEOs have creeped into the newsroom, softly influencing what we could and could not publish. As a subscription-based publication we won't face that issue.

The five of us were all laid off from Eater on the same day last August, and since then we have been working tirelessly to build this. It's thrilling and lightly terrifying to have it out in the world, but the support we've gotten already has been so incredible.

Food Media With Teeth Ravenous is a worker-owned food and culture website serving thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world, founded by some of the best known food journalists and writers across the country.

On Monday, I and four colleagues launched a month-long subscription drive for Ravenous (@weareravenous.com). We are a worker-owned food and culture site, aiming to publish thoughtful and incisive reporting, opinion pieces, and blogs about everything food touches. www.weareravenous.com/about/

We have another great interview with Ravenous co-founder @francesdoingthings.bsky.social today, where she talks about advertisers creeping into editorial independence, and also the superiority of spam sushi www.weareravenous.com/frances-duml...

If you want to know exactly what Ravenous is going to cover, @jayasaxena.com reveals a few things on our editorial calendar!

Namu Distilling posting about a cocktail called The Gay of Hormuz, made with their gin and Calamondin, lemon, saffron, rose, cardamom and clarified milk

Oh my god

And as always, you can subscribe or donate to support worker-owned food journalism here www.weareravenous.com

I was on this week's episode of This is TASTE talking about @weareravenous.com, our subscription drive, and some of the amazing stories we have planned. tastecooking.com/this-is-tast...

Who cares!!!!!!!

Inspiring to see @weareravenous.com emerge: it's run by "award-winning journalists fed up with the conversation around food being reduced by AI slop, 'best of' lists, and influencer-driven trends"

I especially liked what @jayasaxena.com was doing at Eater and bet Ravenous will be brilliant.

Thank you!!!

Yesterday was absolutely bonkers, still so overwhelmed with everyone's support. If you haven't yet subscribed to @feedravenous.bsky.social, you should! We're gonna do tons of cool stuff!! We just need a few bucks to get started!!

Meet a Ravenous Founder: Amy McCarthy "I felt like I was doing good work, but I was consistently constrained by the corporate bullshit of it all."

If you haven't read our interview with @aemccarthy.bsky.social, it's a great look into why we are starting @weareravenous.com. And at the end there's a discount code on your first year's subscription! www.weareravenous.com/meet-a-raven...

I’m so stoked to see it!! Go support this new worker owned outlet!!
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Just subscribed to support a worker-owned food publication featuring some of my favorite food writers! I’m so excited for @weareravenous.com

Not to sue a cafe but I wonder if it is based on consumer protection and false advertising laws!

thank you!!

HI EXCUSE ME

Eddy donated $30, which was kind and will make an impact because all the small amounts add up! If you can’t do a full annual subscription, we’re happy to take $5, $10, $20, and other small donations. www.weareravenous.com/tip-jar/

“I love worker-owned independent journalism, and I'm happy to expand out to food writing as well. I don't normally follow food journalism, but I want to see places like Ravenous succeed and flourish so I'm happy to donate as an expression of solidarity.”

As we roll @weareravenous.com out, we are getting some donations in our tip jar, which is nice. But this note from a gentleman named Eddy warmed my heart.