It’s only been a week since YouTube co-founder Steve Chen announced his new live-streaming cooking platform, Nom, and its already got competition. Twitch, which is mostly known as a live gaming site, has launched their own food vertical featuring top food content and creators. The platform was inspired by the popularity of cooking content—food and recipe videos on YouTube were viewed 15.3 billion times in 2014—and the growing cooking community on their Twitch Creative channel.Twitch.tv/Food was launched with a streaming marathon of all 201 episodes Julia Child’s The French Chef, which racked up over 2.5 million views. (StreamDaily)
