food for thought.
Recipes, like families, have lines of love and attachment which stretch across centuries and continents. Sometimes their history is mired in conflict and conquest, sometimes it’s borne from passion or an accident of location. And just as your sister might drive you mad, God help anyone who criticises her or suggests she might be improved in some way. In that situation, many of us resort to defensiveness at best, claws-out full-frontal attack at worst. How dare anyone criticise our dearly beloved or have the temerity to suggest that they might be improved? So it is with recipes.