Welcome to the family, @justinrogers! And it's about time too!
Just a tip on the tags you used; it's pretty much the same as blog categories, which is how your readers will find yours.
On a daily basis, I publish a report on profitable tags. "Food" is one of them, along with stuff like "vegan" and "recipe".
The report should give you a hint on what are some good tags to use so you can get more visibility.
Also, you can check out this blog on the 4Cs to Steemit Success, and one of the Cs is Courting Followers, which is what you'll have to do to get more followers, fans and readers. The more views you get, the more upvotes you're gonna get, and hence, more $$$.
Have fun!
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