Just A Pinch Recipes

Just A Pinch Recipes is a digital recipe and social network hub headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2010, home cooks submit their own recipes and save recipes from around the internet to their digital recipe boxes.[1][2][3] Just A Pinch captures the recipe swapping and sharing, personal conversation and camaraderie that takes place between family and friends around kitchen tables and transfers it to the digital space.

Just A Pinch Recipes
Type of site
Digital recipe and coupon social network hub
HeadquartersNashville, Tennessee, United States
OwnerAmerican Hometown Media
Created byDan Hammond
URLjustapinch.com
CommercialNo
Users4 million monthly
Launched2010 (2010)

History

Just A Pinch was founded in 2010 and is a subsidiary of American Hometown Media (AHM). Both were conceived and founded by Dan Hammond. Hammond also created American Hometown Publishing (AHP) and was the founder, chairman, president and CEO of Publishing Group of America (American Profile and Relish magazines).[4][5] Other company principals include Mike Meyers, President/CRO and Doli Stepniewski, CTO. Mike Meyers’ twenty-five year career has been focused in publishing. Mike has run publishing, operations, revenue generation, business development, network strategy and general management duties including co-founding Sheknows, LLC, one of the largest women's lifestyle and advertising networks. Prior to joining Just A Pinch, Stepniewski was Chief Architect and partner at echomusic, LLC (echo), an entertainment marketing company in Nashville.

In 2016 Just a Pinch launched the Just A Pinch Food Group. A premium publishing group for a select group of food-only bloggers.

About the recipes

All the recipes on Just A Pinch are posted by home cooks. Recipes are categorized by meal, ingredient, region, occasion, diet, method, and dish. Sub categories include appetizer recipes, breakfast recipes, dinner recipes, dessert recipes, lunch recipes, beef recipes, chicken recipes, fish, recipes, etc. Users may search recipes by name, main ingredient, cooking method, culture/style and holiday/event. Special collections are created for holidays/events allowing home cooks to easily find menu options. The site awards actual blue ribbons to members for outstanding recipes. All blue ribbon recipes are cooked and taste-tested by their Test Kitchen.

Functions
  • A digital hub for all things social surrounding recipes and discussions.
  • A menu planner helps to plan meals for a week, month or year. Recipes sync with grocery lists, separating the ingredients out by store department to help when food shopping.
  • Members can create custom cookbooks using recipes featured on the site.
  • Instant chat capabilities.
  • Private messaging.
  • You can follow favorite cooks.
  • Recipe and cooking contests.
  • Coupons can be printed.

See also

References
  1. "Dan Hammond Whets VC's Appetites for 'Just A Pinch' Media Spin-Out". Venture Nashville Connections.
  2. "Local site Just A Pinch offers options for cooks". Franklin Life. Archived from the original on 2014-03-03.
  3. "Newspaper Publisher launches recipe sharing site". Nashville Post.
  4. "Just A Pinch: June Cleaver Meets Facebook". BrandChannel. Archived from the original on 2014-10-08.
  5. "Publishing Group of America Purchased by Bain Capital Ventures and Shamrock Capital Growth Fund". PR Newswire.
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