Rory Buccheri ✒️🍽

🚨 Calling all #queer beans ‍🌈 ahead of summer hols! I've just launched my Substack to cover travel insights, tips and stories for #nonbinary & queer folks on their way to conquer the 🌎 You can read Travel outside of the binary and subscribe here: open.substack.com/pub/travelouts…

@James_A_Day Hi James! I'd love to send you a couple of ideas for travel destination with a luxury spin. Could you share your email? Thanks :)

@MissGraceHenry @CosmopolitanUK Hi Grace! First of all, congrats!! 🎉 hope you love the role What type of travel and food articles are you looking for for freelancers? I can see most of your guides/top tips are done in-house so I want to make sure I'm pitching you relevant stuff!

📣 I’m pleased to share that I’ve joined @CosmopolitanUK as Acting Entertainment and Lifestyle Director. I’m open to hearing about TV, film, music, books and interview opps, as well as food, drink, travel, horoscopes and interiors pitches #entertainment #journalism #pitches 💕

@maybelle_morgan Hi Maybelle! Are you also posting calls on bluesky?

OR any women who regret chasing after younger men? thoughts on age-gap relationships - writers email me at maybelle.morgan@theipaper.com #journorequest

@A_James_Esq and let’s not forget, by being Italenglished by Marina

... and I still learned more Italian from watching Inspector Montalbano

@Emily_Krivograd Hi Emily, thanks for sharing! Do food chain comparisons relate to US chains only?

Happy 2025, freelancers! Sharing pitches I'm looking for (as well as a list of topics I DO NOT cover). Looking for: -Food chain comparisons -Skip this place, go here instead destinations -Moving from US to another country -Ferry rides/trips -Taste testing all of a brand/food

@Emileejanetombs @TelegraphTravel Hi Emilee! I can’t DM you, but would love to contribute. I can cover most of Europe, the US, Africa and the Caribbean from recent and upcoming trips.

I'm looking for willing participants to write anonymous holiday spending diaries for a series on @TelegraphTravel - fancy documenting your next trip for me? drop me a DM #journorequest

@ChiaraWilkinson @PRJournoRequest Hi Chiara, here for Whitby and Bradford!

If any journalists are still on here - can anyone recommend writers based in (or with excellent local knowledge of) Slough, Whitby, Bradford? #JournoRequest @PRJournoRequest

In case you missed the print version, here's my feature on the "outsider" artist Max Ayers, his love for Lancashire mills, and the fire that scorched his 1000 paintings. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

@ieatmypigeon Reminds me of when I asked for book pitches everything BUT cookbooks and guess what I got? 37 cookbooks pitches :DDD

@Food4_Media get in touch ASAP, but defo by the 19th November! :) thanks

@caffeinatedcrow Hi Rory, we would love to get this shared with our network for you! Please could you confirm your deadline? Thank you - Lucy.

#journorequest looking for food & drink experts (esp. with insights on food-to-go) to comment on why (oh why) so many fried chicken chains are opening in the UK - why this trend now & is it here to stay? email me at rory.buccheri[at]thegrocer.co.uk 🐔🍔

Resharing this to say once again NO recipe books and/or cook books

Adding to this: no recipe books for the time being Thanks!

🚨 calling all book PRs! Do you have new book releases about food? Memoirs, research-oriented, fiction and non fiction…send them my way! I’m at the book desk for The Grocer - reviewing all sorts of foodie literature for the Critical Eye section. Email below #journorequest

rory.buccheri [at] thegrocer [dot] co.uk

@justthemedicine You realise you have low blood flow when it takes you…25 minutes on average 😂

The internet tells me people can do it in less than 3 minutes, so I’ve got to keep training

So Dylan bombs the technical and he still gets Star Baker? Huh. Nelly was ROBBED #GBBO #bakeoff

@daynamcalpine_ Not an expert in any way, but I find blaming it on the British rail does the trick every time

#journorequest looking for dating experts to share their best ways to politely end a first date! DMs open or drop me an email at dayna.mcalpine@id.huffpost.co.uk

Ah yes, Paul Hollywood finally discovered the flavour of “Gucci gang”. Go hide your Korean spice everyone #GBBO #bakeoff