Frances Dumlao

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I used to hire food content creators in my old job, and the industry does not incentivize good storytelling.

weareravenous.comLet the Social Creators Get a James Beard AwardI used to hire food content creators in my old job, and the industry does not incentivize good storytelling.

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If you become a Ravenous paid subscriber today, you’ll get a chance to have a single-figure illustration (i.e. an avatar, portrait or similar) drawn by cartoonist, illustrator, and Friend of Ravenous @mattielubchansky.com. We’ll be selecting three subscribers to win. Here’s how to enter:

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🎵It’s me, hi, I’m the food media problem, it’s me. 🎵

buff.lyConfessions of a Mid-Level Food Media Staffer🎵It’s me, hi, I’m the food media problem, it’s me. 🎵

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One year ago, all five @weareravenous.com co-founders lost our jobs. It was both a traumatic moment for all of us, and also not a surprise — we’ve seen the writing on the wall for a long time.

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

weareravenous.comBefore There Were Instagram Stories, I Had My 2014 Food JournalFrances Dumlao’s college food journal is filled with sketches of doughnuts, grilled cheese, and Chipotle. Take a peek inside.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

weareravenous.comFood Media Horror StoriesIn the spirit of honesty and good ol’ fashioned gossip, here’s a tasting of the worst dramas we’ve faced in our time.

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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.

weareravenous.comMeet a Ravenous Founder: Ashok Selvam"We’re the folks actually doing the work, and we’re the ones that should be making the decisions, and that is just totally ignored in this fucking hellscape of media where everyone wants to maximize…

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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.

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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.

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