How to Pitch: Gourmet
Has the imminence of Thanksgiving got you all juiced up, waxing poetic about food? Good. Get your foot in the door at Gourmet pitching the front of book section: “‘extra quirky little things, short things, statistics, weird new ingredients, food traditions we don’t know about, little factoids, mail-order stuff, great products, books, the world’s greatest potato peeler, or someone who discovers an ice cream maker that works in half the time, a mini profile on someone who is hybridizing the latest soybean-that kind of stuff,’” senior features editor Nanette Maxim tells Carrie Havranek. Stay away from travel pieces and fad food stuff. Just write what you know, if you can do it well. Query by email or snail mail, and feel free to follow up.
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