htaccess and rewrite/redirect

I have an old (custom) cms I wrote, where the format of the urls are /article.php?section=food
I have converted my articles to wordpress and would like to redirect each article to it’s corresponding wordpress url.

I have tried using redirect, but I always get the 404 page.

I know redirect “works” because if i:

redirect 301 /article.php https://domain.tld/2007/05/27/food-article

it works, but /article.php?section=food does not.

With rewrite rules I have equal success

Any tips on using redirect, or rewrite would be greatly appreciated.