# Food52’s secret recipe for building a $100 million media empire

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/food52s-secret-recipe-for-building-a-100-million-media-empire/
- Published: 2021-05-12T10:00:56-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo by Pablo Merchán Montes on Unsplash. Article by Elizabeth Segran. Fast Company – May 7, 2021. At a time when many media outlets are flailing, Food52 is a rare success story. There are no shortage of recipe sites on the internet—from Martha Stewart’s pastel-hued empire to curated recipes on Bon Appétit to home-grown blogs. But no food site has managed to blend e-commerce with content as successfully as Food52. New York Times food editors Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs founded Food52 in 2009 as a website that bridged the gap between gourmet cooking and crowdsourced recipes. Over the past 12 years, it has evolved to include an online marketplace of home goods and a line of kitchen products. This week, it announced that it had acquired Dansk, a 67-year-old Scandinavian-inspired home brand with a cult following. […] Click here to view original web page at www.fastcompany.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki Director of Art & Design See Full Bio