BlogHer and Cooking.com Announce E-Commerce Partnership in Anticipation of Inaugural BlogHer Food Conference

Leading Women’s Network Celebrates Food Blogging Community with Co-Branded Shop Offering Food, Kitchenware and Editorial Content; Affiliate Program to Offer Commission on Referral Transactions

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BlogHer, the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online, today announced a new partnership with Cooking.com to create the first-ever BlogHer-branded shop featuring superior food and kitchen products, setting the stage for the sold-out BlogHer Food ’09.

“Cooking.com is honored to partner with BlogHer and its passionate network of food bloggers”

“We’re thrilled to work with Cooking.com to create a place where food lovers will have an opportunity to enjoy best-of-breed editorial content, found only on the BlogHer Network, and first-class cooking and kitchen products, found only on Cooking.com,” said Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO of BlogHer Inc. “This new relationship will give the millions of women in the BlogHer Network access to the food information they want and the cooking products they love, in support of industry-leading bloggers.”

The BlogHer-branded Cooking.com shop will highlight popular recipes and editorial content from some of the BlogHer Network’s 200 best-of-breed food blogs, as well as regular newsletters to keep members up to date on promotions and deals from Cooking.com. The partnership, designed as a benefit exclusively for bloggers who are members of BlogHer's Network, creates a referral-based affiliate program where Cooking.com sales earn bloggers revenue from a clean, well-lighted store.

“Cooking.com is honored to partner with BlogHer and its passionate network of food bloggers,” said Tracy Randall, founder and CEO of Cooking.com. “We are also thrilled to bring exciting new kitchenware products, content and services to an expanded community of foodies through our relationship with BlogHer.”

The Cooking.com partnership expands BlogHer’s commitment to giving food bloggers and their readers a place to engage and interact with content and products of the highest quality, online and off. This announcement comes two days before the launch of BlogHer’s inaugural food conference, BlogHer Food ’09, a topic-focused event that will bring together food bloggers from every walk of life, to learn, share best practices, blog, meet and eat, on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009 at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco.

For more information about BlogHer Food ‘09, visit: http://www.blogher.com/blogher_conference/conf/11/general/4.

About BlogHer

Founded in February 2005 by Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins and Lisa Stone, BlogHer’s mission is to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment. BlogHer is the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online and creates opportunities for its members via a community hub (http://blogher.com), annual conferences and a publishing network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates. BlogHer provides the highest quality content on a range of topics, with all blogs continually edited to meet strict editorial standards, including content quality, category relevance and blog frequency. BlogHer enjoys a strategic partnership with iVillage, part of Women@NBCU, which includes other NBC Universal brands including Bravo and Oxygen. BlogHer’s investors include Venrock, Peacock Equity, a joint venture between NBC Universal and GE Commercial Finance’s Media, and Azure Capital Partners.

About Cooking.com

Cooking.com was founded in 1998 and is based in Marina Del Rey, CA. Cooking.com, the leading online marketplace for the kitchen, operates six uniquely branded websites: Cooking.com, StarbucksStore.com, PillsburyStore.com, BettyCrockerStore.com, KraftStore.com and FoodNetworkStore.com, plus an expanded shopping platform for culinary leaders such as Rachael Ray, Mario Batali, Fine Cooking and many others. Cooking.com offers its customers access to over 60,000 products for the kitchen as well as recipes, menus, articles and a growing library of user-generated cooking content and online tools. Cooking.com is committed to providing its customers with an exceptional experience and is a recipient of the i.Merchant Gold award for overall excellence as an online retailer.