💡Founder of The Local Tongue: a global guide to eating and drinking like a local, from the world’s best chefs and food writers. 👸🏻 Media entrepreneur and hospitality content marketing Queen 👩🏻‍💻 Managing Director of The Local Tongue Content Studio. We help food, drink and travel brands emotionally and culturally connect with their audience using digital and print editorial content. ✈️ I was compelled to travel after surviving a cancer doctors said I wouldn’t. 💪 I worked two jobs, sold everything and set off on my own from Australia to explore and learn about a world I was more grateful than ever to be part of. 🍽 Travelling alone means frequently dining solo and I’d find myself talking with those around me. Waiters. Bartenders. Chefs. Restaurant owners. 👨🏻‍🍳 They would enthusiastically share their favourite local addresses and send me everywhere from dirty dive bars to Michelin-starred restaurants. 🏠 Their advice gave me a true sense of the place they called home. 🌏 I went out for a meal but found culture and life. I understood first-hand how learning about culinary histories and identities teaches us about others as well as ourselves. 💥 These food experiences changed me. ✨ Now, through thelocaltongue.com I help other travellers learn about the world through deeper, richer and more delicious experiences. 📩 Let’s chat! +61 (0) 431 745 141 thelocaltongue.com [email protected] Follow me on Insta! @thelocaltongue @jessica_rigg_