"The proliferation of blogs by culinary pros and amateurs alike is changing the landscape and purpose of food criticism." -BusinessWeek.com  

"AH [on the growth of Food52]: It's really more like an art project, you've created this art object and seen its evolution." -Jenn Garbee, LAWeekly.com

"Hesser maybe spread a little thin,but she still finds time to eat, popping cinnamon doughnuts or diving into a messy pile of crabs with reckless abandon." -GrubStreet.com

"As Hesser says in an interview with Tech Crunch, 'There is a huge tradition of community cookbooks, but none of them are user vetted.' This is maybe what appeals to me most about the project. It has the feel of a modern church or community cookbook, with people from all walks of life submitting. But it has expertise behind it, to ensure that there aren't, say, 15 recipes for no-bake cookies and dozens more for mayonnaise-based salads." - Jessica Battilana

“'We want it to be a cooking site where the users feel that they have a voice,' Hesser tells me about the project." -Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch.com

"What caught our eye is that Hesser and Stubbs have started uploading test videos: an intro to Food 52, and a video tour of Amanda's envy-inducing kitchen." -Adam Kuban, SeriousEats.com 

"[Amanda Hesser's] new food site looks kind of brilliant." -Jane Black of the Washington Post (via Twitter)