As Wilson noted, many of these recipes were incredibly ornate — like a lamb korma by Madhur Jaffrey “with an ingredient list that goes on for more than a page”. So they weren’t necessarily the meals you’d immediately rush out to make. Indeed, you might never make them at all.
Even so, as Wilson argued, merely reading such sumptuous, byzantine recipes serves another purpose: They “stimulate our imagination”.
It’s fun to imagine???—???“hmmm, what would be it be like if I made this dish? How much fun would it be? What would the tricky parts be, and what new skills would it require?”
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