Quote Originally Posted by Ionathus View Post
As anyone who's ever tried to google a recipe ever can tell you, we almost have too much culinary innovation these days
My wife recently tried the chocolate cake recipe from the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook; she thinks it is the best chocolate cake recipe she has ever made. So many recipes these days are full of meme ingredients (brioche means "stale, tasteless bread" to me, by the way), that what you really want is tried and true recipes, not innovation.