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featuring recipes from home cooks and celebrity chefs, food news, new and classic shows, and pop culture. Food.com was launched in September 2017 and offers recipe, photo, articles, and video content on the web as well as video streaming and smartphone apps. On the website, users can add reviews, modifications, questions and photos to over 500,000 recipe pages.

History

Food.com changed their name to Genius Kitchen in 2017, but as of July 2019 it switched back to Food.com once again. The site formerly known as Recipezaar, and originally as Cookpoint, was created in 1999 outside of

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by two ex-Microsoft technologists Gay Gilmore and Troy Hakala. 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, millions of reviews and tweaks. Food.com is headquartered in New York and is part of the Discovery Inc. portfolio, which also owns and operates brands such as

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, Animal Planet,

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, Food Network, Cooking Channel,

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