How a guidebook for parents dealing with picky kids helped me define my own taste.

My Picky Kids Made Me a Better Eater

How a guidebook for parents dealing with picky kids helped me define my own taste.

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Flipped through my old journal from 2014. I got a kick out of all the drawings I did back in the day

Ravenous@weareravenous.com · 2mo ago

Frances Dumlao’s college food journal is filled with sketches of doughnuts, grilled cheese, and Chipotle. Take a peek inside.

Lesbians and legalized gambling are vying to save the American sports bar: defector.com/lesbians-and...

Lesbians And Legalized Gambling Are Vying To Save The American Sports Bar | Defector

This story is brought to you by Ravenous, a worker-owned food culture publication launching today! Together, they’re putting the bite back into food journalism with incisive reporting like this story ...

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Aaaaaaand we're live!

Ravenous@weareravenous.com · 3mo ago

After many months of planning, meeting, writing, and learning a lot more about finance than any of us thought we would in our careers, and after April’s month-long subscriber drive that has brought so many of you to us, we have officially arrived at Day 1 of Ravenous. We have two stories for you.

The WNBA is coming back to Detroit. Who's opening the women's sports bar??? I'm ready.

Will Lesbians and Gambling Save the American Sports Bar?

It may seem as if these two distinct types of sports bars — the women’s sports bar and the gambling lounge — exist on totally different planets. But they’re products of the exact same social environme...

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Thinking a lot about solidarity today and how much amazing support from other worker owned coops we’ve gotten at @weareravenous.com, and how excited we are to share what we’ve learned with anyone. Comrades not competition is the way forward!!!

We started Ravenous in hopes to fix this broken system.

Ravenous@weareravenous.com · 3mo ago

Food media is broken. There are several reasons for this, but we think it can be distilled into three core issues:

Interviewed @jayasaxena.com ! Kinda insane how this one email started it all.

Ravenous@weareravenous.com · 4mo ago

Back in August 2025, Jaya Saxena sent an email to organize a group of us to start a worker-owned food culture website. This message was the first step in our journey of building Ravenous.

I may have shared too much

Ravenous@weareravenous.com · 4mo ago

As a group who have worked in food media for collective decades, Ravenous’ five founders have dealt with our fair share of egos, misunderstandings, and frustrations.

One of our fundraiser ideas is if we raise X amount of money, you see a video of me doing X amount of Malort shots. It’s an idea? Subscribe at weareravenous.com if you like ideas.

Ravenous@weareravenous.com · 4mo ago

Meet @shokdiesel.bsky.social, Ravenous’ James Beard Award-winning co-founder. Here, he talks about the power of good journalism, of working as a team, and of a strong shot of Malört.

Heyyyy @weareravenous.com dropped its first email to subscribers today! It’s just a little taste of what’s to come and an update on where we’re at in our fundraiser by @shokdiesel.bsky.social.

It’s wild that this is considered a bold pov nowadays

Ravenous@weareravenous.com · 4mo ago

Big media won’t make this promise, but Ravenous will. We guarantee that we will never publish anything made with generative AI — no articles written with ChatGPT, no uncanny art with seven fingers. We actually speak with people and taste their dishes, write our own work, and value human creativity.

Plus, she reveals some stories we’ve been working on behind the scenes. Let’s just say there will be Malort and maybe the pope. 👀 buff.ly/71yMVP6

Chatted with @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social on my journey in the food media industry and why we need @weareravenous.com right now

Ravenous@weareravenous.com · 4mo ago

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.

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.

When she was 19 I got a front row seat watching @francesdoingthings.bsky.social help build a student publication into something vibrant and sustainable. That publication is still going strong today and so is she! Stoked for this!

Ravenous@weareravenous.com · 4mo ago

We are Ravenous — food media with teeth. Ravenous is worker-owned food and culture media company founded by @francesdoingthings.bsky.social, @aemccarthy.bsky.social, @jayasaxena.com, @shokdiesel.bsky.social, and @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social.

Subscribe and donate to support the future of food journalism. www.weareravenous.com

Ravenous Is a New Worker-Owned Food Culture Media Company

For too long, food media has felt toothless. Help us take a bite out of it.

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