A BBC source had said the recipes would “fall off the face of the internet” after the food site was closed. “If you’ve got a website that’s got features and cooking recipes, effectively the BBC website becomes the national newspaper as well as the national broadcaster. The recipes you love will still be available, and we’ll migrate as much of the content as possible to the BBC Good Food website. A huge public outcry, including a petition signed by more than 120,000 people, has provoked a climbdown at the BBC, which promised to keep many of its most popular recipes online less than 24 hours after announcing the closure of its food website. According to the latest Comscore data in March, Good Food had a 16.6% share while the publicly funded food site had a 6% share.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2016 11:44 UTC