Do online recipes come with too much backstory? It’s all part of the joy of food

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

These days just about every recipe in the world is only a Google search away.

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).

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