Serious Eats is a website and

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focused on food enthusiasts, created by

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and author

Ed Levine Ed Levine (born January 27, 1952) is the creator/founder of Serious Eats, the author of the entrepreneurial memoir Serious Eater: A Food Lover's Quest for Pizza and Redemption (Portfolio Penguin/Random House, 2019), and the host of the podcast Sp ...

. A Serious Eats book was published by Levine in 2011. Serious Eats was acquired by Fexy Media in 2015 and then by

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in late 2020.

Content

The site consists of general food features as well as recipes, home cooking advice, and equipment reviews. The site is notable for launching the career of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, whose column "The Food Lab" was adapted into a

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-winning cookbook of the same name. Lopez-Alt's writing was highly regarded among

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cooks for its rigorous approach to cooking and recreating cultural food icons, such as the ShackBurger and

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, in the home kitchen.

Critical reception

In 2008, Serious Eats was ranked #17 on ''

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'' magazine's list of the 50 Best Websites. Serious Eats was the recipient of two

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awards in 2010 for Best Food Blog and Best Video Webcast.

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American cooking websites

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Content

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