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Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009

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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. 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 sneak-peek at upcoming cookbooks will also allow consumers to test-drive recipes before investing in the whole volume. Satisfied cooks will be able to click from the recipe directly to online retailers to purchase the book. Roughly 80 percent of Epicurious recipes come from the site's users and from Epicurious recipe developers, Steel said, and the balance come from Conde Nast publications such as Bon Appétit and Gourmet, which closed earlier this month.