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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 23/09/2026

We are soooooo close. Take us to the finish line and SUBSCRIBE. Get your 30% off before midnight ET www.weareravenous.com/feed-the-bir...

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 22/09/2026

As you may know, we’ve been working over the last month to secure 300 new paid subscribers in 30 days. Welp, today’s day 30, and it’s the final day to score our biggest discount ever. Join @katkinsman.bsky.social and the rest of the flock today! Here's 30% off a subscription: buff.ly/EYirJYs

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 22/09/2026

Ravenous has no investors or VC funding, and no business dudes in the C-suite calling the shots. Our subscribers are the only folks we have to answer to, and that’s pretty damn exciting. Join readers like Maris Kreizman (@maris.bsky.social) and subscribe for 30% off buff.ly/EYirJYs

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 22/09/2026

Today’s the LAST day to subscribe to Ravenous for 30% off! The sale ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. ET. Be like Sutton (@ryansutton.bsky.social), and subscribe now buff.ly/EYirJYs

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 21/09/2026

While corporate media is cutting costs and getting rid of human workers, we’re aiming to do the exact opposite. We want to hire talented food freelancers who have something important to say. Help us fund our freelance budget and join smart readers like @joshgondelman.bsky.social. buff.ly/EYirJYs

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 21/09/2026

"Ravenous is all meat, no filler." - Ali Khan. Feed the bird and become a Ravenous subscriber today. 🐦‍⬛ We're just 77 paid subscribers away from our goal of 300, which will help us hire freelance writers and creatives and bring you more great food journalism: buff.ly/EYirJYs

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 21/09/2026

@soleilho.com is a fan of Ravenous! 🐦‍⬛ Join our flock and get 30% off a subscription. Our Feed the Bird subscriber drive ends tomorrow at 11:59 p.m. ET: buff.ly/EYirJYs

A testimonial from Soleil Ho, critic and food writer at Coyote Media: I’m so glad to see more publications like Ravenous bring that fight into the business structure itself, working hard to prove that food media can have spaces where the people making the work also run the show. I’m so looking forward to seeing how Ravenous pushes us all forward — into newer, braver ideas about food and the many ways it touches us.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 18/09/2026

Today is the last day of GIVEAWAY week! One Ravenous paid subscriber will be upgraded to our $1000 Big Spender tier for FREE. This means they'll get access to quarterly Zoom salons, free exclusive merch, a custom dinner playlist, and our top-secret name for the raven. 🤫 Here’s how to enter:

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 17/09/2026

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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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 16/09/2026

Welcome to the second day of GIVEAWAY week for new paid subscribers. We’ll be choosing one winner to receive limited edition Ravenous merch — a raven T-shirt, totebag, and stickers! Here’s how to enter:

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 15/09/2026

To round out our fundraiser drive, we are doing a whole week of GIVEAWAYS to new paid subscribers. First up, Ravenous’ very own @jayasaxena.com will be offering three-card tarot readings for spooky season, so you can get your life in order. We’ll be choosing three winners. Here’s how to enter:

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 14/09/2026

If we reach our goal of 300 new paid subscribers, we’ll have a robust budget to hire freelance food writers, photographers, and other creatives, so we can produce more than our current four stories a week. This means more profiles, investigations, labor stories, and dives into food trends.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 10/09/2026

Our own Ashok Selvam joined The Perfect Bite podcast to talk about the process of founding Ravenous and, quite frankly, tell all of our secrets and look good doing it. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, but we're going to give you the YouTube link right here. buff.ly/iP8g3nI

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 26/08/2026

It's day 3 of our subscriber drive! Let's keep up the momentum and hit 60 new subscribers today. We're offering 25% off subscriptions: buff.ly/ReXP8Ot

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 24/08/2026

Now one year and over 5,000 subscribers later, we know for sure that we’re building the future of food media — but we can’t do it without our subscribers.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 24/08/2026

We immediately started talking about building something on our own terms, a new kind of food media that wasn’t chained to the algorithm, a place where we could pursue our passions.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 24/08/2026

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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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 03/08/2026

About three months into publishing, we’re hoping to commission some freelance work soon (though not yet! Hold your horses, freelancers!). But as we navigate writing up contracts and budgets, @jayasaxena.com writes about her anger at the way generative AI is affecting the media industry.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 23/06/2026

A new wave of pricey popcorn buckets is pushing the boundaries of functionality, with fans paying hundreds for these novelty kernel containers shaped like a “Devil Wears Prada” handbag, Galactus’s head, or whatever that Spider-Man’s web one was supposed to be.

A Ravenous montage with the headline "What's With The Fancy Popcorn Buckets?" with a byline reading "by Ashok Selvam." There are purple slashes of paint over three popcorn buckets featuring Spider-Man, Galactus, and an IMAX camera.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 18/06/2026

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Please consider a paid subscription to Ravenous which will go directly to producing excellent food journalism, not enriching billionaires. Paid subscriptions start at just $7/month.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 18/06/2026

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It is officially the end of an era. Today, we learned that Eater, along with Punch, Thrillist, SB Nation, The Dodo, The Verge, and PopSugar would be acquired by Penske Media Company. While this news is not surprising, it is yet another blow to the diversity of coverage that food media deserves. Consolidation has been the name of the game in digital media in recent years, and the only people who have benefited from this constant parade of acquisitions and layoffs are the executives.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 20/05/2026

A little birdie told us some media news, so a reminder Ravenous will never be owned by a Murdoch www.weareravenous.com#/portal/

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 19/05/2026

Each week, a Regular or Big Spender gets to give our little Ravenous raven a nickname. This week, we got a cute little Chichichi from Frankie.

A slide says Bird Nickname of the Week: Chichichi. Under that is a hand drawn raven. A text box below reads: " “Chichichi, which is what we say in Mandarin when you're out for a big group meal or hosting a meal at home, and you want people to ‘eat eat eat,’ hurry up and tuck in before the food gets cold and before folks get too hungry.” The final text says submitted by Frankie.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 07/05/2026

"When I saw that Evan LeRoy, half of the famed LeRoy and Lewis Barbecue in Austin, Texas, and Paula Forbes (@paulaforbes.bsky.social), noted cookbook author and restaurant critic for Texas Monthly, were dropping a cookbook, I couldn't wait to get my hands on a copy...

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 06/05/2026

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.

A graphic with the headline: “This Is Day One of Ravenous” with a subhead that says, “We made it.” The background is a painting called Pronkstilleven by artist Adriaen van Utrecht, made in 1644. It shows a lavish banquet with lobster, fruit, ham, and more, with a monkey grabbing a berry.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 05/05/2026

We’re less than 24 hours away from the end of our subscriber drive. We’re about $60,000 away from our goal — and that means we need 890 of YOU to become paid subscribers today to fund the quality food coverage on Ravenous for a year: weareravenous.com

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 05/05/2026

Over the weekend, @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social dropped a newsletter with some thoughts on the enshittification of bagels as venture capital enters the space. At Ravenous, we believe that not everything has to scale — including bagels. Read it here: bit.ly/48HySiA

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 29/04/2026

After we exited Eater together in Aug 2025, @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social co-founded Ravenous & was the first person to put down money — she’s the one who secured the site’s domain name. We chat with Smith about the state of the media industry & where she ate after getting laid off: buff.ly/kM3E5j2

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 27/04/2026

Grant Achatz, co-owner and chef of (now) two-Michelin-starred Alinea, revealed he’s part of the growing number of chefs using Substack. In our Sunday newsletter, @shokdiesel.bsky.social explores what led Achatz to write a 2,700-word post: buff.ly/qSZgwDb

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 22/04/2026

Today, we have an interview with founder-owner Jaya Saxena, a James Beard Award-nominated writer and editor based in Queens, NY. She tells us what drew her to the worker-owned media movement, the lack of transparency in traditional food media, and the go-to $20 meal: buff.ly/S16Bk9A

A graphic of Jaya Saxena with text that reads: "Meet a Founder | Jaya Saxena". Underneath is this text:
On the Future of Food Media
"In food media specifically, there are all these independent and also worker-owned sites and zines popping up. And I think that's so exciting. And I hope that becomes the new guard. Because that makes the industry better and more equitable as a whole."

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“On Working For Corporate Food Media:
I've been able to do a lot of cool work, but I also definitely see how these other business and money concerns interrupt that work and keep people from being able to do things that connect with readers or being able to tell important stories, because you're so concerned with page views and ad dollars and paying back investors that that takes precedence over doing good journalistic and literary work.”

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 22/04/2026

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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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 22/04/2026

We’re at 50% to goal! Special shout-out to Katy, our newest paid subscriber, who took us over the halfway mark. Thank YOU to all our early bird supporters for believing in our mission. We’ve been busy working on some exciting stories and projects that we hope to share with y’all very soon!

A graphic showing a screenshot of a Slack conversation in the Fundraising channel. Amy McCarthy announced that "we're at 50%." The rest of the team celebrates with "ahs" and confetti emojis.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 16/04/2026

Plus, you'll get our undying love, knowing that you support high-quality journalism and ensure that journalists are paid fairly. ❤️ Support the future of food journalism today. Subscribe and donate: weareravenous.com

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What you'll find on Ravenous:
- Sharp reporting and long-form features on restaurants, dining, and wider food culture around the country.
- Opinionated commentary and news analysis on everything from pop culture moments to fast food snafus.
Coverage of books, television, and movies that touch the food world.
- Deep dives into the labor it takes to keep the food industry going on all sides.
- And more, like podcasts, videos, and events as we grow.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 16/04/2026

Time flies! There are 6 days left to hit 50% of our goal by the halfway point of our subscriber drive. That means we need 117 readers to become annual paid subscribers by April 21. Help us stay on track to launch Ravenous.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 13/04/2026

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.

A graphic that has the title of “Our Ethics | AI” and below reads: “We will never use generative AI to write our stories or create our visual or audio content. We also will never use our or our freelancers' work to train generative AI.”

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 11/04/2026

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

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 11/04/2026

We’re on the TASTE podcast! Founder-owner @jayasaxena.com sits down with @mattrodbard.bsky.social, TASTE editor-in-chief, about what’s been missing in food media and what Ravenous brings to the table. buff.ly/71yMVP6

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 07/04/2026

We’re stunned. In just day 1 of our subscriber drive, we’ve raised $48,884! 🎉 That’s 30 percent of our goal of $160,000 to support the launch of Ravenous. We’re blown away by the love and support we’ve received from YOU.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 06/04/2026

Today, we are launching a 30-day subscriber drive to raise $160,000 to support Ravenous for a year. Paid subscriptions are what fill our beaks — paying for our salaries, our designer, CMS, web hosting, freelance writers, and the occasional meal to fuel our ravenous appetites.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 06/04/2026

With Ravenous, we’re building a home for food writing and reporting you actually want to read, driven by expertise, honesty, and passion. For too long, food media has felt toothless. Help us take a bite out of it.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 06/04/2026

We are award-winning journalists fed up with the conversation around food being reduced by AI slop, “best of” lists, and influencer-driven trends.

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