Get Paid to Write About Food

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Kaitlyn Arford
May 27, 2026

Get paid to write about food and the culture around it! This list is just a starting point.

I’ll also add that most local publications include stories about food. If you have a local destination, restaurant owner you’d like to profile, or a food-related story with a local connection, I would recommend pitching a local magazine or newspaper first.

A few ground rules for using this list:

  1. Don’t use AI to pitch!!!

  2. Follow their guidelines. Read their publications before you pitch. Submissions may be closed now and reopened later.

— Kaitlyn

Publications to Pitch

$650-$950/article+

FoodPrint covers food-related stories with a focus on sustainability in the U.S. FoodPrint needs analysis and reporting that has a timely news peg.

$300+

Sentient Media publishes stories about factory farms and how they impact food, climate, animals, and more. Sentient Media is interested in solutions journalism covering responses to factory farming, disinformation debunkers, and fact-checked explainers. Sentient Media is only interested in stories based on reporting.

£600

Vittles focuses on essays about modern food, scams and feuds, investigative reported work, South Asian writing, and critiques of online food culture.

$0.50-$2/word

Trails Magazine has a recipe in each issue for its front-of-book section. The magazine is also interested in profiles and reviews of backpacking meals from brands, profiles of the food scene in trail towns, and food-related essays and opinions.

$600/food and travel features, $0.40/word for travel guides

Foodism publishes stories that explore Toronto’s diverse food scene, features that look at region-specific food and beverages made in Canada, and deep dives that explore food-related themes.

Honoria

The Land, Food, and Freedom Journal is focused on Black land and food sovereignty and liberation. Pitches on Black food traditions and recipees, poetry and essays examining food apartheid, oral histories from Black farmers, chefs, herbalists, and food workers, and research and case studies on Black-led food co-ops and community gardens are welcome.

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Yellow Scene Magazine is open to pitches on food in Boulder County.

$300/article

Going’s Places newsletters focus on destinations. Each edition features history, food, culture, language, art, music, and design. You must be very familiar with the place by living there, being from there, or visiting often.

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