FoodPair is a recipe search engine based in

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. It was founded by former Google employee Raj Irukulla in 2010 and is privately held.

Features

FoodPair allows users to find and filter recipes based on ingredient, keyword, diet, course, number of ingredients and source site. The site's

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interface gives users with the ability to refine search criteria incrementally.

Reception

In August 2010, PC Magazine included FoodPair in its Top 100 Sites of 2010. Other food related websites included in the list were

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and Epicurious. FoodPair was also named a Good Online Cooking Guide for the Beginner Cook by MakeUseOf.com. Trend Central featured FoodPair as a site that helps home cooks streamline their online recipe searching.

References

External links

*{{Official website, www.foodpair.com American cooking websites Internet properties established in 2010 Internet search engines