To add my unfinished thought - I hate when people trash this stuff because it’s unfashionable, which is not the case here on HO but absolutely is on Instagram, etc. (e.g., the hate of beige food because of appearance rather than smell or taste).
Here’s a contemporary example of a dish I find awful and embarassing, but uses a super fashionable technique and worst of all is from a site that overall I really like:
All of it looks sad and inedible, and also like something that really shouldn’t require a recipe at all. And it’s to show off a new cookbook! Plus ca change.
