Just recipes; no stories, no bloat.
> About this site
> Founded to provide a simple online cookbook without ads and obese web design. See the story of this site unfold in three videos:
> https://odysee.com/@Luke:7/a-demonstration-of-modern-web-blo...
> https://odysee.com/@Luke:7/the-war-against-web-bloat-continu...
> https://odysee.com/@Luke:7/soydevs-destroyed-epic-style-by-b...
I'm not sure i agree with Luke on everything, or even that his tone is always conductive to productive discussion, but there is definitely a lot of merit in creating small and fast websites without any unnecessary bloat nowadays.
The "Website Obesity Crisis" presentation also has stuck with me ever since i ran into it: https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
I like the look and feel except for the Gay Spa Asian video suggestions lol
https://cookpad.com is a pretty good site for recipes. Unfortunately it's mostly only popular in Japan. IIRC, they want you to pay if you want to be able to sort results by rating
- Cookpad has infinite scrolling
- The only way to change the site language is a link in the footer
- As a result, just when you're about to click this essential link so you can read the site, more content loads in and it disappears
Took me five or six tries to finally scroll+click fast enough and defeat the infinite scrolling boss, thus unlocking the epic "now I can read this website" loot. Stupid beyond belief and I will never visit Cookpad again because of this.
Not just recipes, but in-depth articles about utensils and above all, ingredients, too. And tips on where to buy them in Los Angeles ("Koreatown", mainly, as I recall).
Also some stories, about occasions (mostly gatherings of the site owner's music club) where the dishes have been served. But they're on separate pages; you needn't see them unless you want to.
Dunno about any RSS feed though.
It used to be common for ingredient sellers to issue recipe books that would extoll the value of their goods, trash their competitors', and the recipes would usually include the ingredient even if it didn't do anything for the particular food you were trying to make. (E.g. "our flour is pure, unadulterated, and not bleached using toxic ingredients unlike our competitors who also eat babies", which was a more effective marketing tactic before the existence of food regulatory authorities curbed the worst excesses.)
The recipe on the side of the box is a much smaller-scale version of this.
Some examples from cookbooks: https://www.maangchi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/mul-naen...
https://www.cookbookdivas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Cel...
It's a lot easier to just try a new recipe when it's not tied up inside a 100-comment Reddit thread debating its nutritional value.
I also wouldn't be surprised if the fluff is there because it was originally written for web and chanced upon finding a publisher