It’s a pot that keeps getting stirred: Every so often, some wag will take to social media and whine about the lengthy stories that sometimes accompany recipes on food blogs. Kaling typically projects a likable persona on social media and in her comedies, which frequently revolve around a woman’s struggle to be heard. Why do all online recipes have endless pages of the chef’s whole life story about the recipe and then on the 12th page is the actual recipe? To make sure that the search engine finds them, writers optimize their recipes to make Google “like” them better. “Dear recipe writers on the Internet: I have a radical idea,” Perelman tweeted.

Source: Washington Post March 30, 2020 22:52 UTC