You might want to check out the reqests
library. It makes simple things like this much easier:
import requests
r = requests.get('http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/reviews/Breaded-Chicken-Cutlets-aka-Grandma-Jodys-Chicken-51114400')
print r.text
Here are the docs: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
Ran the above and verified it works.