Top chefs, cookbooks land on Epicurious.com
Hundreds of recipes from the world's top chefs and cookbook authors will soon be available on the food site Epicurious.com.
A partnership between the Conde Nast-owned Web site and publishing giant Random House will bring more than 100 recipes from chefs including Lidia Bastianich, Jacques Pepin, Joan Nathan, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Joel Robouchon to the Web startign this week.
At least 200 recipes will be posted by the end of 2009, said Epicurious.com editor-in-chief Tanya Wenman Steel. Hundreds more will be added to the site's 140,000-recipe database each year.
"The people who come to Epicurious want to know how to make a roast chicken, but also a tom kha chicken soup," Steel said. "So we're trying to get a good mix of cuisines and skill levels for our users."
The sneak-peek at upcoming cookbooks will also allow consumers to test-drive recipes before investing in the whole volume.
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