Type of site Recipe Commercial Yes | Website www.food.com Launched 1999 | |
Owner Scripps Networks Interactive | ||
Food.com, is the third largest recipe & food site on the web, is a social network of home cooks who connect and share recipes, photos, cooking tips and food trends. Food.com celebrated its 15th year in 2014.
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Formerly known as Recipezaar, and originally as Cookpoint, Food.com was created in 1999 outside of Seattle, Washington by two ex-Microsoft technologists. What started as an idea to connect home cooks from all over the world has grown into a daily cooking community, featuring 500,000+ user-generated recipes, 125,000+ photos and millions of reviews.
Food.com is headquartered in New York and is part of the Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) portfolio, which also owns and operates loved brands such as Food Network, Cooking Channel, HGTV, Travel Channel, DIY Network and Great American Country. These brands collectively reach more than 170 million consumers each month across all device types. The Scripps Networks Interactive headquarters is in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Genius Kitchen Hacks
Food.com’s Genius Kitchen Hacks show users how to make everyday kitchen and household activities easier, quicker, and more fun with short tip videos.
Mobile application
In July 2014, Food.com launched their new mobile app of the same name to the iOS App Store. This top food & wine app features the site's immense library of 500,000+ recipes, and gives users the ultimate tool for meal planning, shopping organization and scoring grocery deals. The app allows users to search and save recipes in a custom recipe box, build organized shopping lists, and see what's on sale at local stores. Deal information is geo-fenced, giving users the ability to browse local circulars from within the app and see what's on sale in the context of their shopping lists.