Epicurious phases out beef recipes in âpro-planetâ decision Existing beef recipes will remain available on the popular online cooking website. (Tony Cenicola | New York Times file photo) Epicurious, the popular cooking website, said it would no longer feature recipes that have beef as an ingredient because of the cattle industryâs effects on climate change. By Derrick Bryson Taylor and Christina Morales | The New York Times   | May 1, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Could an empire of the kitchen quietly stop cooking with beef and leave no one the wiser? That appears to be the feat accomplished by Epicurious, the popular online recipe bank where home cooks have gone to hone their skills for a quarter of a century. The editors there revealed to readers this week that not only were they done with new recipes containing beef, but they had been phasing them out for more than a year.