Editing Recipe (section)

== Internet and television recipes ==
By the mid-20th century, there were thousands of cookery and recipe books available. The next revolution came with the introduction of the TV cooks. The first TV cook in the world was [[Philip Harben]] with a show on the BBC called ''Cookery'' which premiered in June 1946.<ref name="cooksinfo.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cooksinfo.com/timeline-of-tv-cooking-show-personalities#:~:text=The%20first%20televised%20cooking%20programme,and%20was%2010%20minutes%20long.|title=Timeline of Television Cooking Show Personalities|access-date=2021-05-24|archive-date=2021-05-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524153751/https://www.cooksinfo.com/timeline-of-tv-cooking-show-personalities#:~:text=The%20first%20televised%20cooking%20programme,and%20was%2010%20minutes%20long.|url-status=live}}</ref> A few months later ''I Love to Eat'' presented by [[James Beard]] became the first such program in the [[US]].<ref name="cooksinfo.com"/> TV cookery programs brought recipes to a new audience. In the early days, recipes were available by post from the BBC; later with the introduction of [[CEEFAX]] text on screen, they became available on television.

The first Internet [[Usenet newsgroup]] dedicated to cooking was ''net.cooks'' created in 1982, later becoming ''rec.food.cooking''.<ref>{{citation |first=Victor |last=Sack |title=rec.food.cooking FAQ and conversion file |at=sec. 6.1 |url=http://vsack.homepage.t-online.de/rfc_faq0.html#6.1 |date=20 October 2016 |access-date=17 February 2018 |archive-date=30 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830043000/http://vsack.homepage.t-online.de/rfc_faq0.html#6.1 |url-status=live }}</ref>  It served as a forum to share recipes text files and cooking techniques.

In the U.S. in 2008, there was a renewed focus on cooking at home due to the [[late-2000s recession]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124148676424885935 |title=Web Recipes Are Cooking With Gas |last=Holmes |first=Elizabeth |date=2009-05-05 |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |access-date=2017-08-08 |archive-date=2017-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927113515/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124148676424885935 |url-status=live }}</ref> Home cooking in the U.S. was similarly inspired in the early 2020s during the [[COVID-19 pandemic|coronavirus pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=One Year Later: How the Pandemic Changed Home Cooking |url=https://www.allrecipes.com/longform/coronavirus-cooking-and-grocery-shopping-one-year-later/ |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=Allrecipes |language=en |archive-date=2022-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110153639/https://www.allrecipes.com/longform/coronavirus-cooking-and-grocery-shopping-one-year-later/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The abundance of multimedia in modern food recipes allows for recipes to be more accessible to home amateur chefs.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Buykx |first1=Lucy |last2=Petrie |first2=Helen |chapter=What Cooks Needs from Multimedia and Textually Enhanced Recipes |date=December 2011 |title=2011 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia |chapter-url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ism.2011.70 |publisher=IEEE |pages=387–392 |doi=10.1109/ism.2011.70|isbn=978-1-4577-2015-4 }}</ref> The accessibility of cookbooks online further helps home cooks improve their skills and understand the cultural identities cookbooks have. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Coyle |first=L. Patrick |title=Cooks' books: an affectionate guide to the literature of food and cooking |date=1985 |publisher=Facts on File |isbn=978-0-87196-683-4 |location=New York, N.Y}}</ref>

Television networks such as the [[Food Network]] and magazines are still a major source of recipe information, with international cooks and chefs such as [[Jamie Oliver]], [[Gordon Ramsay]], [[Nigella Lawson]] and [[Rachael Ray]] having prime-time shows and backing them up with Internet websites giving the details of all their recipes. These were joined by reality TV shows such as [[Top Chef]] or [[Iron Chef]], and many Internet sites offering free recipes, but cookery books remain as popular as ever.<ref>{{cite web | title=Cookbooks surge to top category at libraries | author=Andriani, Lynn | accessdate=2013-10-14 | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/cooking/article/46214-cookbooks-surge-to-top-category-at-libraries.html | archive-date=2015-04-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092647/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/cooking/article/46214-cookbooks-surge-to-top-category-at-libraries.html | url-status=live }}</ref>