Allrecipes.com, Inc. is a food focused online social networking service headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company was founded by David Quinn.
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History
Allrecipes.com was founded in 1997 after co-founder Hunt had trouble finding his favorite cookie recipe on the Internet. The recipe sharing and cooking community website began as an offshoot of one of Seattle's first web companies, Emergent Media. The company's original website was CookieRecipe.com. After Cookierecipe came Cakerecipe.com, Chickenrecipe.com, Pierecipe.com, Beefrecipe.com. After launching 38 different domains, the company consolidated all its websites into Allrecipes.com.
In 1999 Allrecipes.com hired Bill Moore, a former Starbucks executive, as its CEO. In 2006 Reader's Digest purchased of Allrecipes.com for $66 million.
Reader's Digest sold the company to the Meredith Corporation in 2012 for $175 million.
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Website
The recipes on the website are posted by members of the Allrecipes.com community. They are categorized by season, type of course (such as appetizer or dessert), and ingredients. Search functionality supports requiring and excluding specific ingredients. Other categories include methods (such as grilling or baking), occasions, and cooking style. There is support for finding meal ideas for specific holidays.
Allrecipes.com is available for iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, and Android users. Allrecipes.com's apps for smartphones allow users to access the site and its user-uploaded content while on the go. In 2011 Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel rated the site as one of her "five favorite food apps." The app allows users to search recipes and include specifications in their search (such as type of meal, nutrition, key ingredients, and time needed to prepare the dish). Recipes can be saved and easily shared on Twitter and Facebook.
In September 2015 Allrecipes.com launched a revamped website as part of a broader transformation into a social networking service for food lovers. The September 2015 website relaunch was met with broad criticism with the most common grievance being the perceived decrease in usability.
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External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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