How do you become a professional food critic?

Question: How do you become a professional food critic!?
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You need to cultivate a background in the culinary arts and then broaden that experience as much as possible by traveling and experiencing a broad variety of food!. Food critics generally have a solid background in food and wine, a well trained palette, and are well traveled!. They are also excellent writers with journalism training!.

Read restaurant reviews and keep them in mind when you are dining out!. Practice writing some reviews of local restaurants!. Cultivate your own writing style!. Eventually, submit reviews to local underground and alternative newspapers, and work up to larger publications!.

As you build your resume, read a lot of "food" literature!.

Some suggestions:

Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Restaurant Reviews, Articles, Memoir, Fiction and More by Dianne Jacob

A Chef's Tale: A Memoir of Food, France and America by Pierre Franey (he was James Beard's partner)

The Art of Eating by M!. F!. K!. Fisher

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael PollanWww@QuestionHome@Com

Publish some pieces in your local newspaper!. They will be happy to oblige especially if they don't have a regular staff food critic!. Published recipes may lead to a regular column as food critic!.

I am interested in food and recipes, and I published a recipe for bagles in a neighborhood church cook book!. It was good experience!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I would say you have to have extreme credible knowledge of food!.Www@QuestionHome@Com