Food.com is a digital brand and online social networking service 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.

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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

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portfolio, which also owns and operates brands such as Discovery Channel,

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, HGTV,

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, and

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