# Modern Recipes That Are Barely Recipes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [March 6, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-recipes-that-are-barely-recipes/998544 "2024-03-06T16:24:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-recipes-that-are-barely-recipes/998544/1 "2024-03-06T16:24:24Z")
How I long for the day when you could just look up a recipe in a book or even on line and get _just_ a recipe. These days it seems I have to trudge through piles of fluff - the “chef’s” bio, what their pets are named, prominent mention of name brands, latest dietary woo-woo, really, anything BUT cooking along with three dozen photographs of whatever - to finally, _finally_, get to an actual recipe. Modern recipe books - that is, actual published books - can be just as bad. I thought maybe I was just mis-remembering the past. I consulted cook books I have that are decades old. Nope. No fluff. The only one with even a vestige of fluff is my old Jewish recipe book that explicitly gives religio-cultural background to the food. And even that is organized so if you want you can do directly to the recipe. Yes, it’s a bit of a weak pitting but I’m really REALLY annoyed by it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-recipes-that-are-barely-recipes/998544)._