How I Became A Paid Food Critic (And How You Can, Too)
Someone’s gotta eat all that food. Might as well be us.
So, for a brief time, I worked at Mashed. I also still work at Food And Drink Magazine, have acted as the “Moodie Foodie” for MetNights, and also published tons of stuff regarding food on a wide range of different platforms.
Today, I’m still paid to write about food. In effect, I’ve been paid to eat at least three times this year — with the meal covered in full. Most of my other meals out are partially paid off. My cookbooks also pay for themselves.
So, what gives?
In a world where eating has started to look like more of a luxury, the truth is that you have to get creative. When I was homeless, I started to realize that I’d never go hungry if I wrote about food professionally. So, I became a food writer.
Contrary to popular belief, I never went to culinary school.
It’s true. I never went to culinary school, and I dropped out of college after having a nervous meltdown. So, if you thought that you need culinary training to be the next food writer, think again. I learned on-the-job.
