AOL Food Serves up a Bountiful Holiday Resource for Home Cooks.

Entertainment Editors

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2003

AOL 

-- Comprehensive Holiday Cooking Guide Features Tested Recipes,

Menu Planning Resources, Expert Advice and Features from

Leading Magazines: Real Simple, Cooking Light, Southern

Living, Health, Sunset and Coastal Living

If holiday meal preparation has you feeling like a turkey, take heart, AOL and Time Inc.'s magazines are offering everything the home cook needs to make the holidays a piece of cake this year. AOL(R) Food, a comprehensive online cooking and entertaining resource, blends premier cooking content from Time Inc.'s magazines with AOL's leading search, ratings, community features and holiday planners to offer a dynamic holiday food resource that makes meal planning fun, enjoyable and easy.

According to ComScore Media Metrix, nearly 23 million people -- roughly 16% of online consumers - visit food and cooking Websites every month. This holiday season, whether they're looking for tips on basting a turkey, a rundown of kitchen tools needed to cook a complete holiday meal, or a low calorie eggnog recipe, home cooks will find everything they need at AOL Keyword: Food or AOL Keyword: Holidays. Exclusive to the AOL membership, AOL Food offers a bounty of cooking resources for the holidays ranging from an extensive database of professionally tested recipes and seasonal menu suggestions to step-by-step techniques, organizational secrets, entertaining tips and more.

"We all know that the tasks of researching recipes and preparing meals increase tenfold during the holidays. Our goal this year is to help our members spend more time enjoying the company of friends and family and less time in the kitchen," said Tina Sharkey, Senior Vice President of Life Management and Community, America Online, Inc. "More than 60% of our members are women and whether they're hunting down recipes for daily meals or big holiday dinners, they've told us that finding easy-to-prepare cooking solutions is very important to them. What's more, at our Holidays 2003 area, we take it one step further for our members by seamlessly linking them to other helpful and fun holiday tools and resources available on AOL, such as a holiday planner with calendar reminders, holiday greetings, travel deals, gift ideas and more."

"From Thanksgiving menus and last minute grocery shopping to finding the perfect dish to satisfy your finicky relatives, cooking for the holidays has traditionally been a real juggling act," said Gail Horwood, Editor and Programming Director of Time Inc. Interactive. "AOL Food delivers practical cooking solutions, helpful advice and easy entertaining ideas from trusted Time Inc. magazines, offering home cooks a service that helps take the hassle out of the holidays."

AOL Food features advice and recipes from experts at leading Time Inc. magazines, including Real Simple, Cooking Light, Southern Living, Health, Sunset and Coastal Living, as well as Oxmoor House, Time Inc.'s largest cookbook publisher. In coming months, content from Food & Wine, In Style, Parenting and Essence will also be available. AOL Food is fully integrated throughout core areas and channels of the AOL service such as AOL Search and various community features, guaranteeing that wherever members are on the service, smart and simple holiday cooking solutions are just a click away.

Key elements of AOL Food that can help home cooks prepare for the holiday include:

-- An extensive database of thousands of recipes, all

professionally tried and tested, ranging from main courses

such as Herbed Turkey with Roasted Garlic Gravy, to

Thanksgiving desserts like Cracked Caramel-Pumpkin Pie and

scrumptious sides like Cider Scalloped Potatoes.

-- The Kitchen Assistant makes meal recommendations based on

personal preferences and dietary needs. Members can customize

food searches to the holidays using any of 145 criteria,

sorted by ingredients, courses, occasions, cuisine,

conveniences, preparation method, dietary consideration or

magazine/content source for special considerations. The Ask

the Kitchen Assistant feature also provides practical advice

for common seasonal cooking issues.

-- "My Kitchen" offers a single source for storing and organizing

holiday recipes and menus, customized with personal notes.

Full integration with the AOL service allows members to easily

email or instant message recipes or menus with just one click

- perfect for assigning duties for a holiday potluck

celebration or keeping picky family members in the loop about

proposed menus.

-- Photo-illustrated Step-by-Step Instructions provide guidance

on mastering common holiday techniques, such as How To Roast

Turkey and How To Make the Perfect Pastry Crust. Corresponding

recipes add context to the photos and help ensure the final

dish is a success.

-- Cooking Secrets supplies emergency recipe rescue tips on how

to solve common holiday challenges and mishaps, such as

underdone pies, thin gravy, and lumpy melted chocolate.

-- Recipe Ideas offers seasonal menu suggestions such as Deep

Fried turkey, Sugar and Spice Turkey and Herb-Roasted Turkey

With Cheese Grits, while the Easy Entertaining feature offers

practical holiday specific advice such as A Make Ahead

Thanksgiving Menu. The Eat Smart section rounds out the

offering with healthy tips on how to prepare nutritious food

this holiday season.

-- Food Talk provides access to the largest and most engaged

community online to discuss various holiday cooking issues

such as Holiday Baking and Stress Free Holiday Cooking. AOL

Food enables users to join Cooking Light Supper Clubs, rate

and review holiday recipes and share their successes, mishaps,

tips and menus through instant messages, e-mail and message

boards. Weekly polls also gauge member opinions about food,

recipes and more.

In addition, while the menu planning and preparation are underway, cooks on AOL can also seamlessly access other holiday tools and services on AOL that offer a complete start to finish solution for the season. Holidays 2003 (AOL Keyword: Holidays) is a hassle-free holiday help guide offering a holiday planner that enables members to set up reminders of important to-do's through AOL(R) Calendar; a gift search and shopping toolkit; the Party Central area offering useful information for party planning; holiday greetings to buy or send online; holiday buddy icons, smileys and wallpaper to give the AOL desktop a seasonal makeover; AOL(R) Journals to share holiday stories and photos; and entertainment ideas such as local events and movie reviews, times and theater information.

About America Online, Inc.

America Online, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services.

About Time Inc.

Time Inc. is the world's leading magazine company, publishing approximately 130 regular-frequency titles with 300 million readers. Time Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., the world's leading media and entertainment company.