Epicurious
Encyclopedia
Epicurious is a website dedicated to recipes, cooking, drinking, entertaining and restaurant
s, and its existence hearkens back to one of the World Wide Web's earliest presences. It is owned by Condé Nast
. The site also includes recipes from Bon Appétit
magazine and now defunct Gourmet
magazine. The site accepts recipe contributions from readers. The name is a portmanteau of "epicure," one with discriminating tastes in food or wine, and curious, and is also a pun on the etymological origin of "epicure," Epicurus
, a Greek philosopher.
Epicurious used to have a TV series on the Discovery Channel
, but it no longer airs.
CondéNet launched an iPhone
app for Epicurious in April 2009 that allows browsing and searching recipes, the ability to save favorite recipes and build a shopping list, and later Android, Windows Phone 7
and iPad apps, as well.
Restaurant
A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...
s, and its existence hearkens back to one of the World Wide Web's earliest presences. It is owned by Condé Nast
Condé Nast Publications
Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, is a magazine publisher. In the U.S., it produces 18 consumer magazines, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, as well as four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps...
. The site also includes recipes from Bon Appétit
Bon Appétit
Bon Appétit describes itself as "a food and entertaining magazine" and is published monthly. Named after the French phrase for "Enjoy your meal", it was started by M. Frank Jones in Kansas City in 1956...
magazine and now defunct Gourmet
Gourmet (magazine)
Gourmet magazine was a monthly publication of Condé Nast and the first U.S. magazine devoted to food and wine. Founded by Earle R. MacAusland and first published in 1941, Gourmet also covered "good living" on a wider scale....
magazine. The site accepts recipe contributions from readers. The name is a portmanteau of "epicure," one with discriminating tastes in food or wine, and curious, and is also a pun on the etymological origin of "epicure," Epicurus
Epicurus
Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism.Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works...
, a Greek philosopher.
Epicurious used to have a TV series on the Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
, but it no longer airs.
CondéNet launched an iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
app for Epicurious in April 2009 that allows browsing and searching recipes, the ability to save favorite recipes and build a shopping list, and later Android, Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...
and iPad apps, as well.