"Hotline is the site's popular Q&A service, where cooks consult other cooks about anything, anytime (like what to do with a broken mayonnaise or how to substitute buttermilk in biscuits)." - Tejal Rao, VillageVoice.com

"It takes vision to realize you have something valuable, and that’s exactly what Co-Founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs had when they realized they had created a robust community of food lovers, recipe makers and at-home chefs for their crowdsourced cookbook." - Kate Brodock, Forbes.com

"In a recent interview with GigaOM, Hesser laid out how Food52 plans to become a central clearinghouse for cooking questions and food knowledge throughout the Web — sort of aQuora or Yahoo Answers for food." - Kevin Fitchard, GigaOm.com

"Your future is here in New York City. The most interesting, diverse, intellectually challenging, and friendliest place you will ever live and work in." - Mayor Michael Bloomberg, AVC.com

"You can even post a question on the site or through the app, and if you mark the question as urgent, it rockets to the top of the pile so you don't have to stand in your kitchen all night waiting for a little help." - Alan Henry, Lifehacker.com

"'We created this place where you can ask questions on the site and mark it as urgent, if you are in one of those thorny situations,' Hesser says." - Nancy Shute, NPR.org

"Food writer Amanda Hesser taught her preschool-age twins how to dip-and-sweep—the proper way to measure flour." - Nicholas Day, Slate.com

"The Piglet may not be the biggest award for a cookbook, but it is one of the most prestigious." - Leslie Chesterman, The Montreal Gazette 

That’s by the home cook…a result of a year’s worth of recipes from home cooks who sent them into the website Food52.  It’s always great to see what home cooks are doing. - Sara Moulton

"We amalgamated 195 Best Cookbooks of 2011 lists from around the world to come up with the definitive guide to the best books on food and drink." -EatYourBooks.com