Whois & Analysis for allrecipes.com

Cooking or cookery is the art, technology and craft of preparing food for consumption with the use of heat.

Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions and trends.

The ways or types of cooking also depend on the skill and type of training an individual cook has.

Cooking is done both by people in their own dwellings and by professional cooks and chefs in restaurants and other food establishments.

Cooking can also occur through chemical reactions without the presence of heat, such as in ceviche, a traditional South American dish where fish is cooked with the acids in lemon or lime juice.

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body.

It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals.

The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells to provide energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.

A recipe is a set of instructions that describes how to prepare or make something, especially a culinary dish.

It is also used in medicine or in information technology (user acceptance).

A doctor will usually begin a prescription with recipe, Latin for take, usually abbreviated to Rx or an equivalent symbol.

Allrecipes.com, Inc. is a food focused online social networking service headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

The company, which was founded by David Quinn, Carl Lipo, Mark Madsen, Michael Pfeffer, Dan Shepherd and Tim Hunt in 1997, is today owned by the Meredith Corporation.

The company currently operates 19 websites in 13 languages.