This info will turn up on the site’s “about” page eventually. …But briefly:

We’ve recently made the decision to retire our very oldest web page, which for many years has been located at EuropeanCuisines.com. When we started it just before the turn of the century, tracking down recipes from other countries could be a taxing business, and we were interested in helping make it easier for people (especially those searching for Irish recipes) to find them. But then came Google, which made hunting much easier: and many, many passionate and committed foodbloggers interested in going into European recipes in far more detail than we would ever have time to.

That wasn’t at all a bad thing. Also, though, at around the same time, came the big professional recipe sites, many of which were quite happy to scrape our site’s recipes and monetize them without backlinks or any kind of credit. Gradually over two decades the game of running a recipe website changed profoundly. And it slowly became plain that a site with such a big remit, involving numerous national cuisines, was no longer realistic for people doing it primarily as a hobby.

EC.com suffered a drive crash in 2023, and a combination of illness and the demands of our joint work schedules meant that it never came back in anything like its previous form. Finally Peter and I looked at each other and decided that the sensible thing to do was migrate those of its recipes that still interested people into smaller and more tightly focused venues. The main domain, we decided, would linger on primarily as a gateway for those other recipe locations—such as Real Irish Desserts, itself some years old now and due for an update since its theme provider’s abruptly gone south—before eventually closing it down entirely.

Additionally, it seemed like a smart time for us to migrate the many recipes and food-oriented articles that (for lack of other proper homes) had wound up on Tumblr or on our personal WordPress blogs into a single hobbyist-friendly favorite-recipe site, so that we’d have less trouble finding them when we want them (or want to share them). And that’s what this will be.

So please be patient as we get stuff moved in: we expect the business to take a while. And thanks very much for your interest!

This info will turn up on the site’s “about” page eventually. …But briefly:

We’ve recently made the decision to retire our very oldest web page, which for many years has been located at EuropeanCuisines.com. When we started it just before the turn of the century, tracking down recipes from other countries could be a taxing business, and we were interested in helping make it easier for people (especially those searching for Irish recipes) to find them. But then came Google, which made hunting much easier: and many, many passionate and committed foodbloggers interested in going into European recipes in far more detail than we would ever have time to.

That wasn’t at all a bad thing. Also, though, at around the same time, came the big professional recipe sites, many of which were quite happy to scrape our site’s recipes and monetize them without backlinks or any kind of credit. Gradually over two decades the game of running a recipe website changed profoundly. And it slowly became plain that a site with such a big remit, involving numerous national cuisines, was no longer realistic for people doing it primarily as a hobby.

EC.com suffered a drive crash in 2023, and a combination of illness and the demands of our joint work schedules meant that it never came back in anything like its previous form. Finally Peter and I looked at each other and decided that the sensible thing to do was migrate those of its recipes that still interested people into smaller and more tightly focused venues. The main domain, we decided, would linger on primarily as a gateway for those other recipe locations—such as Real Irish Desserts, itself some years old now and due for an update since its theme provider’s abruptly gone south—before eventually closing it down entirely.

Additionally, it seemed like a smart time for us to migrate the many recipes and food-oriented articles that (for lack of other proper homes) had wound up on Tumblr or on our personal WordPress blogs into a single hobbyist-friendly favorite-recipe site, so that we’d have less trouble finding them when we want them (or want to share them). And that’s what this will be.

So please be patient as we get stuff moved in: we expect the business to take a while. And thanks very much for your interest!

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