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Do online recipes come with too much backstory? It’s all part of the joy of food
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 884" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/feb/23/do-online-recipes-come-with-too-much-backstory-its-all-part-of-the-joy-of-food" target="_blank"><strong>Do online recipes come with too much backstory? It’s all part of the joy of food - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>You might be sick of scrolling through the text before a recipe – but food is essential to culture, and should never be reduced to a simple to-do list </em></p><p></p><p>These days just about every recipe in the world is only a Google search away.</p><p></p><p>But click through to the results and instead of a neat set of instructions often you’re wading through a meandering, 1,000-word story of the dish’s reception by Mary’s two little “fussy eaters” (spoiler alert: they ate it all and asked for seconds), or Sam and Lucy’s trip to Thailand where they found a “little stall” in a “little alleyway” where their Pad Thai was prepared by “adorable little man” who spoke no English (they managed to order by pointing at things).</p><p></p><p>Just skip to the recipe, you might think. But before you roll your eyes at every cook’s personal story, think of the alternative. Although recipes are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/commentisfree/2017/feb/23/recipes-are-to-cooking-as-listicles-are-to-journalism-theyre-intrinsically-flawed" target="_blank">transactional by their nature</a>, they should never exist in isolation. Food is not a bare set of ingredients and instructions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
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