The Foodies' Food Guide, Chowhound, Ends Its Run

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🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The beloved, influential early internet food site, Chowhound, has ended its run 25 years after its founding. The site encouraged an independent ethos. According to the ‘Chowhound Manifesto,’ “Foodies eat where they're told. Chowhounds blaze trails. They comb through neighborhoods for culinary treasure. They despise hype.” KQED’s Food Editor, Luke Tsai flexed his food writing chops on Chowhound and as part of our regular series with Luke about Bay Area food culture, he and another Chowhound regular join us to reminisce about the boom days of Chowhound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.1	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:41.3	People really like to bag on the naive techno-utopianism of the early days of the
0:47.5	World Wide Web.
0:48.9	But, you know, there were many flavors of utopia back then on the message boards of the
0:53.8	internet where heretofore impossible
0:56.7	communities could define themselves and gather around common interests. They might have lacked some
1:03.7	polish and features and oftentimes commercial viability, but for some years there, they flourished like coral reefs in the big
1:13.7	technological ocean. I actually had my own version of this on a UCLA basketball message board.
1:22.3	And there was another version of this that existed for many people who loved food. KQED food editor,
1:31.5	Luke's eye, has a beautiful piece on the KQD website. As many of you know, Luke joins us every other
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