Serious Eats

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title: "Serious Eats" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["american-cooking-websites"] description: "Food enthusiast website and blog" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_Eats" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Food enthusiast website and blog ::

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name	Serious Eats
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type	Blog
language	English
owner	People Inc.
author	Ed Levine
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Serious Eats is a website and blog focused on food enthusiasts, created by food critic and author Ed Levine. A Serious Eats book was published by Levine in 2011. Serious Eats was acquired by Fexy Media in 2015 and then by Dotdash in late 2020.

Content

The site consists of general food features as well as recipes, home cooking advice, and equipment reviews.

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-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.

Other notable past contributors to the website include Stella Parks and Sohla El-Waylly.

Critical reception

In 2008, Serious Eats was ranked #17 on Time magazine's list of the 50 Best Websites. Serious Eats was the recipient of two James Beard Foundation awards in 2010 for Best Food Blog and Best Video Webcast.

References

References

1. Fabricant, Florence. (8 November 2011). "The 'Serious Eats' Book, Stuffed to the Cover". New York Times.
2. Gordinier, Jeff. (2015-06-02). "Serious Eats and Roadfood Are Sold to Fexy Media". The New York Times.
3. (2020-09-22). "Dotdash Acquires Simply Recipes and Serious Eats". Business Insider.
4. (2016-04-27). "James Beard award for Lopez-Alt's 'The Food Lab'".
5. "These two McRib knockoffs are so much better than the real thing". Washington Post.
6. "This Perfect Fried Chicken Recipe Took 100 Attempts to Develop". www.bloomberg.com.
7. "The Bravetart Is Back and As Opinionated As Ever".
8. "This Ranch Seasoning Is So Delicious, I Keep It in My Handbag".
9. (17 June 2008). "Serious Eats - 50 Best Websites 2008 - TIME". [[Time (magazine).
10. "Congratulations and Thanks, Serious Eaters". seriouseats.com.

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