aid: cucumbertown
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cucumbertown.png
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:
- 500-global
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
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumbertown
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence