CucumberTown

Cucumbertown was a recipe network and food-blogging platform ("a Tumblr for recipes") founded around 2011-2012 in Palo Alto, California by Cherian Thomas, Chris Luscher, Arun Prabhakar and Dan Hauk, and backed by 500 Startups (now 500 Global) among other angel investors. It let home cooks and food bloggers publish, structure, and share recipes on a hosted network. Cucumbertown was acquired by the Japanese recipe network Cookpad in June 2015 and was fully shut down by March 31, 2017 for lack of a sustainable business model. The company is defunct and operates no public API or developer program. The cucumbertown.com domain now 302-redirects to Samsung Food (app.samsungfood.com, formerly Whisk), an unrelated successor product; none of the artifacts served on that host belong to Cucumbertown.

CucumberTown is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Recipes, Food, and Food Blogging.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

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Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: cucumbertown
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  trial: false
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  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: CucumberTown
description: Cucumbertown was a recipe network and food-blogging platform ("a Tumblr for recipes") founded around 2011-2012
  in Palo Alto, California by Cherian Thomas, Chris Luscher, Arun Prabhakar and Dan Hauk, and backed by 500 Startups (now
  500 Global) among other angel investors. It let home cooks and food bloggers publish, structure, and share recipes on a
  hosted network. Cucumbertown was acquired by the Japanese recipe network Cookpad in June 2015 and was fully shut down by
  March 31, 2017 for lack of a sustainable business model. The company is defunct and operates no public API or developer
  program. The cucumbertown.com domain now 302-redirects to Samsung Food (app.samsungfood.com, formerly Whisk), an unrelated
  successor product; none of the artifacts served on that host belong to Cucumbertown.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cucumbertown/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-lifecycle-status: defunct
x-shutdown-date: '2017-03-31'
x-acquired-by: cookpad
x-domain-redirects-to: https://app.samsungfood.com
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Recipes
- Food
- Food Blogging
- Cooking
- Consumer
- Social Network
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://cucumbertown.com
- type: Wikipedia
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x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence