Serious Eats is a website and
blog
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focused on food enthusiasts, created by food critic 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 Spec ...
. A Serious Eats book was published by Levine in 2011.
Serious Eats was acquired by Fexy Media in 2015 and then by
Dotdash
Dotdash Meredith (formerly About.com) is an American digital media company based in New York City. The company publishes online articles and videos about various subjects across categories including health, home, food, finance, tech, beauty, ...
in late 2020.
Content
The site consists of general food features as well as recipes and home cooking advice.
The site is notable for launching the career of
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, whose column "The Food Lab" was adapted into a
James Beard award
The James Beard Foundation Awards are annual awards presented by the James Beard Foundation to recognize chefs, restaurateurs, authors and journalists in the United States. They are scheduled around James Beard's May 5 birthday. The media award ...
-winning
cookbook of the same name. Lopez-Alt's writing was highly regarded among amateur cooks for its rigorous approach to cooking and recreating cultural food icons, such as the ShackBurger and Chick-fil-a, in the home kitchen.
Critical reception
In 2008, ''Serious Eats'' was ranked #17 on ''
Time
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'' magazine's list of the 50 Best Websites. Serious Eats was the recipient of two
James Beard Foundation
The James Beard Foundation is a New York City-based national non-profit culinary arts organization named in honor of James Beard, a prolific food writer, teacher, and cookbook author, who was also known as the "Dean of American Cookery." The prog ...
awards in 2010 for Best Food Blog and Best Video Webcast.
See also
*
List of websites about food and drink
This is a list of websites about food and drink.
Websites about food and drink
* African Food Network
* ChefsFeed
* The Daily Meal
* Eater.com
* Food Network
* Food.com
* Freezerburns
* Gil's Thrilling (And Filling) Blog
* HungryGoWhere
* Jus ...
* ''
The Food Lab
''The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science'' is a 2015 cookbook written by American chef J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. The book contains close to 300 savory American cuisine recipes. ''The Food Lab'' expands on Lopez-Alt's "The Food Lab" column o ...
'', a cookbook written by Serious Eats columnist J. Kenji López–Alt
References
American cooking websites
External links
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