"The Food52.com goal is to create a bank of well-curated recipes from good cooks who submit recipes on a theme, like beef salad or end-of-summer cocktails, and then vote for the best." - Kim Severson, The New York Times

"Fellow kneaders, beaters, grinders, and mashers: The first rule of foodie fight club is you will talk about online arena food52.com." - Daily Candy Everywhere

"Noted food journalists Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs have conceived the coolest social group experiment since the commune: Food52.com." -TastingTable.com

"food52 had a soft launch in June with Hesser and Stubbs granting passwords to almost 1,800 interested foodies who wanted to access the site over the past few months." - mediabistro.com

"Today marks the official launch of food52, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs‘s new food site geared toward serious home cooks." - Laura Hazard Owen, Publishing Trends

"Why not try it at home? A member of Food52, the former T editor Amanda Hesser’s new cooking site, posted this delicious recipe." -Charlotte Druckman, The New York Times 

"One book contract (and a whole lot of work) later, www.Food52.com was born." - China Millman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

"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