Foodista
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| Type of business | Private |
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Type of site
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encyclopedia of culinary information |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Founder(s) |
Barnaby Dorfman Sheri Wetherell Colin Saunders |
| Slogan(s) | The Cooking Encyclopedia Everyone Can Edit |
| Website | foodista.com |
| Registration | Optional |
| Current status | active |
Foodista.com is an online recipe, cooking, and food news source. Foodista is built by both registered community members and anonymous contributors through a . With all content available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, the site contains articles on recipes, foods, cooking tools, techniques, and food news.
Founded by Barnaby Dorfman, Sheri Wetherell, and Colin Saunders in February, 2008, Foodista's personnel primarily come from an Internet enterprise background; several have worked for Amazon previously. Dorfman also worked at Portland Oregon's Marsee Baking prior to entering the tech industry. Foodista is based in Seattle Washington.
The business model is first and foremost reliant on advertising, but Foodista hopes to incorporate coupons and other promotions from food companies in the future. Despite heavy competition from a wide array of more popular culinary websites, the founders assert that the audience for gastronomic information online has yet to be exhausted.
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