"Success looks like a small, devoted team of food humans (editor, scouts, interviewers, photographers, video producers) sitting with Kitsap County's cooks, farmers, bakers, and growers long enough to come back with stories that taste like the actual person. The team runs at the speed of attention, not the speed of the food-content feed. Eventually it runs without me in the operational loop."
Eats Pass tells stories from the table. We cover the food economy in Kitsap County and beyond — kitchens, fields, ovens, counters — through the humans doing the work. Slow profiles. Photo essays where the captions do the work. Q&A interviews where the cook's voice carries.
We are not a food blog. We are not a deals site. We are a publication built on a bet: that what gets called "food content" online has gotten cheaper and lower-quality, and the way through is real attention given to one cook at a time.
We are recruiting collaborators in five roles — editor, scouts, interviewers, photographers, video producers. Each role is listed below as a task. Claim one if it sounds like your kind of work.
Eats Pass is one publication in the Human Story Experiment network. Editorial framework: Age of Robots.
Roles we need — join the team
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Editor
Eats Pass needs an editor — the person who holds the standard, runs the editorial calendar, and makes the call on what makes the page. This is the most consequential role on the team. You need real editorial chops, a strong sense for food storytelling that isn't food content, and the willingness to say "not yet" to pieces that aren't ready. If you've edited a publication you'd actually want to read, this might be you.
⏱ ongoing📅 a few hours per week✨ editorial judgment, food-world fluency, writing/editing experience, taste
🔒 Approval required1 spot open
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Scout
People who notice the food humans worth writing about. A cook still making sauces from scratch. A farmer who keeps a heritage variety alive. A baker working at 4 AM. A line cook with strong opinions about salt. Someone running a CSA who knows everyone's kids' names. If you keep noticing the food people the feed keeps missing, you might be a scout.
⏱ ongoing📅 as available✨ curiosity, local food-world knowledge, ability to spot interesting humans
8 spots open
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Interviewer
People who can spend two hours in a kitchen with someone and come back with how that person actually thinks about food. Not what they cook. How they think about cooking it. Not a transcript. Not a press release. The actual shape of the work. If you're a careful listener with a recorder, this might be you.
⏱ per piece📅 two hours per interview, plus writing✨ deep listening, writing, comfort in kitchens and around food workers
🔒 Approval required4 spots open
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Photographer
Hands, ingredients, faces. Available light, real kitchens, the actual person — not the food-styling version. We need photographers patient enough to wait for the moment the chef forgets the camera is there. If you understand food photography is closer to portraiture than to product shots, this might be you.
⏱ per piece📅 a morning per shoot✨ documentary/portrait photography, environmental composition, patience around busy kitchens
🔒 Approval required3 spots open
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Video Producer
We publish video alongside writing. We want process footage that respects the rhythm of how the cook actually cooks — chop-and-stir, not influencer cuts. B-roll that makes a kitchen feel like a place. Audio quality matters; kitchens are loud. If you've made video that feels less like production and more like noticing, this might be you.
⏱ per piece📅 a day per piece✨ documentary video, editing, audio capture in noisy environments, patient eye
🔒 Approval required2 spots open
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