Definition of Epicurious

Epicurious is a website dedicated to recipes, cooking, drinking, entertaining and restaurants, and its existence hearkens back to one of the World Wide Web's earliest presences. It is owned by Conde Nast Digital, the online division of Conde Nast Publications. The site also includes recipes from Bon Appétit magazine and Gourmet magazine. The site accepts recipe contributions from readers. The name is a portmanteau of "epicure," one with discriminating tastes in food or wine, and curious, and is also a pun on the etymological origin of "epicure," Epicurus, a Greek philosopher.